New indie flick District 9 is about bureaucrats trying to evict 1.5 million stranded, buglike aliens from a vast slum outside Johannesburg, South Africa. What happens when slum life gets turned into a ...
Come Back, Africa (Lionel Rogosin Films) is a timely and remarkable piece of cinema journalism: a matter-of-fact, horrifying study of life in the black depths of South African society. Filmed in ...
A SOUTH African man has confessed to raping and murdering two girls, aged two and three, in a Johannesburg slum. The man, in his late 20s, appeared in court briefly on Monday on two counts each of ...
At least 24 people, including children, have died after a gas leak at a South African slum near Johannesburg, emergency services said late Wednesday.