Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs on assignment for TIME of people watching Nelson Mandela’s funeral on television in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, one of the poorest urban areas in all of South ...

A man stands near public toilets placed on a dump site in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 10, 2019. [Reuters] Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of ...

Alexandra Township, Johannesburg — Instead of waiting for the coronavirus to do it's awful, inevitable work, South Africa has taken its fight against COVID-19 right into some of its poorest of ...

"We don't have houses, we don't have jobs, we don't have anything," said Cyril Mthembu, a 42-year-old unemployed father of three who has lived in Alexandra for 28 years. "So, we are fighting over the ...

JOHANNESBURG – As South Africa prays for ailing anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and welcomes the first African-American U.S. president, it is still struggling to become the country that Mandela ...

Gauteng police are investigating two counts of murder and five of attempted murder after a taxi boss was shot dead in ...

Moss Marakalala was 11 when he first used a laptop at an after-school programme in Johannesburg, sparking an interest in ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of South Africa's main financial district, but has existed in squalor for 30 years. Unemployed and in her 50s, ...