The Madala hostel in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Picture: Sphamandla Dlamini/EWN JOHANNESBURG - Residents at the Madala hostel in Alexandra are calling for the immediate repair of the building’s ...

JOHANNESBURG - Residents of Madala Hostel in Alexandra are living in unsanitary conditions: open sewage, overcrowding, and a lack of basic amenities. Constructed in 1971 during the apartheid era ...

Alexandra (South Africa) (AFP) – Pacing along the dark corridors of a rundown five-storey building in Johannesburg's crime-ridden township of Alexandra, Duduzile Mthembu says she has been trying ...