Johannesburg
Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Johannesburg, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 428 stories have been published about Johannesburg which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Johannesburg, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 428 stories have been published about Johannesburg which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
Weather
15°C
15°CWednesday
15° | 25°C
15° | 25°CThursday16° | 25°C
16° | 25°CFriday13° | 23°C
13° | 23°CSaturday
12° | 24°C
12° | 24°CSunday15° | 24°C
15° | 24°CMonday14° | 25°C
14° | 25°CTop Johannesburg News
Latest News Stories
Energy · JohannesburgSouth Africa’s ever-worsening power crisis — in which homes and businesses go without electricity for up to 10 hours per day — is strangling Africa’s most developed economy.
South African leader grapples with ever-worsening power cuts
64% Center coverage: 11 sources
Cyril Ramaphosa · JohannesburgSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday declared a national "state of disaster" over his country's crippling power shortages, saying they posed an existential threat to the economy and social fabric.
South African president declares 'state of disaster' over power crisis
46% Center coverage: 47 sources
Europe · MoscowRussia and China will conduct naval drills in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa next month, in another indication of their strengthening relationships with Africa’s most developed country amid the war in Ukraine and global financial uncertainty.
Russia, China to hold naval drills off South Africa
46% Center coverage: 33 sources
Nature · JohannesburgA tiger which escaped from a farm and roamed the countryside outside of Johannesburg for four days, attacking a man and killing several animals, was euthanised on Wednesday.
Fugitive tiger euthanised in South Africa after attacks
47% Center coverage: 17 sources
Politics · JohannesburgAdriaan Vlok died aged 85 on Sunday morning in a Pretoria hospital. He was found guilty and sentenced for the attempted murder of Frank Chikane. He also admitted to the bombing of Cosatu's headquarters during National Party rule. After apartheid, he actively sought atonement for his role in the oppressive regime.
South Africa's apartheid-era police minister Adriaan Vlok dies
50% Right coverage: 6 sources
Business · JohannesburgFrans Hugo, 90, has been delivering newspapers in South Africa's Karoo region for four decades. He edits and hand-delivers three local papers, The Messenger, Die Noordwester and Die Oewernuus. Hugo leaves at 1:30 a.m. from Calvinia, a small town of less than 3,000 souls about 500 kilometers north of Africa's southernmost tip.
Meet South Africa's Frans Hugo: The 90-year-old journalist who delivers news in the desert
Coverage: 5 sources
Traffic Accident · JohannesburgTwenty people have been confirmed dead and sixty-eight injured in a head-on collision between a tour bus and a cash-in-transit van on the N1 in the Makhado (Louis Trichardt) area of Limpopo. The bus then rolled from the freeway bridge into the river below, landing on its left side.
South Africa bus crash kills 20, leaves 68 injured
46% Center coverage: 26 sources
Politics · JohannesburgLack of employment is driving people to join fast-growing armed groups in sub-Saharan Africa. UN Development Programme (UNDP) report based on interviews with hundreds of former fighters. 25 percent of voluntary recruits to such groups cited needing money as their primary reason for joining. 22 percent cited wanting to join with family and friends and 17 percent cited religious ideas.
Hope for jobs drives recruitment by militant groups in Africa
38% Left coverage: 8 sources
