The gas explosion that tore apart the street in front of his cellphone shop in downtown Johannesburg on Wednesday afternoon also brought Nick Noor's business to a standstill in the blink of an eye.

The Joburg city manager said the buildings on either side of the Bree Street blast are structurally sound and there is no need to evacuate. Some of the damage on Bree street in the Johannesburg ...

The cause of the blast at evening rush hour Wednesday in downtown Johannesburg remained unclear. The company that supplies gas to that part of the city said it did not believe its underground ...

Johannesburg, Africa’s richest city, will spend 196 million rand ($10 million) rehabilitating a key road in its old central business district after a methane-gas explosion in July. The city ...

A suspected gas explosion caused a sinkhole in the Johannesburg central business district, and left nine people injured and vehicles overturned on Wednesday night. Authorities rushed to the scene, as ...

Gauteng officials have said it is still unclear what led to the massive explosion but suspect it may have been cause by a rupture of some underground gas pipes.

Two weeks after the explosion on Lilian Ngoyi Street in Johannesburg’s CBD, city officials say the blast was caused by methane gas. The city has budgeted R173-million to repair the damage.

JOHANNESBURG-An unexplained explosion ripped ... He said a preliminary investigation did not reveal the cause of the blast. “(The) situation is completely under control,” he said.

Nearly two years after the Lillian Ngoyi Street explosion in the Joburg CBD, the site remains largely untouched. Damage from the blast, which killed one person and left the street in ruins, was ...

Mohamed Dabhelia from Vision Tactical says his company has been using drone technology to investigate the ground under. "You know that the drones were put into the area we got a bigger picture of ...

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Lesufi says a preliminary report indicates that there may be similarities to an incident that occurred in Yeoville back in 2010. Two people were injured in a Telkom building in Yeoville when gas ...