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Peta Thornycroft

Peta Thornycroft is a journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 
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There are hundreds of dangerous and unsafe 'hijacked' buildings across Johannesburg

At least 17 people including three children have died in a squatter camp east of Johannesburg after a leak of poisonous gas used by illegal miners.

South Africa's Terror Financing Hub for Islamic State

Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius

Therapy, no alcohol and a mansion: What life after prison looks like for Oscar Pistorius

Oscar Pistorius Released on Parole Amidst Public Discontent

There is widespread disillusion with the ruling Zanu-PF

Oscar Pistorius

Zimbabwe's elections overshadowed by fear and economic turmoil

At least 17 dead including children after gas leak in South African squatter camp

At least 17 people including three children have died in a squatter camp east of Johannesburg after a leak of poisonous gas used by illegal miners.

Philip Rankin and his wife Anita inspect their tobacco crop in 2016 just before their farm was seized - TSVANGIRAY MUKWAZHI

South Africa's terror financing problem

‘The outlook could hardly be bleaker’: Zimbabwe on edge as voters prepare to go to the polls

77 people died last month in a fire in a five-storey building in Johannesburg - UNPIXS

South Africa's struggle with terror financing and international sanctions

There are hundreds of dangerous and unsafe 'hijacked' buildings across Johannesburg

Churches burned and children ‘seized’ as militants target Christians in Mozambique

Israel sends Holocaust survivor to sit as a judge in Gaza genocide trial

White farmers in Zimbabwe live and die with the toxic legacy of Mugabe’s brutal land grab

Therapy, no alcohol and a mansion: What life after prison looks like for Oscar Pistorius

‘Fat, bearded and a smoker’: Oscar Pistorius may be free, but his career is over

South Africa plans to overhaul asylum policies amid economic strain and public discontent

South Africa to Withdraw from UN Refugee Conventions to Restrict Immigration

Uganda captures head of militia that killed British newly-weds

Colombia to Cull Hippos Descended from Pablo Escobar's Herd

US prepares to evacuate 600,000 Americans from Israel

Iceland’s women are on strike again and, at 72, I’m proud to be one of them

Mandela ‘did the same thing’ as Hamas, says leader of South African firebrand party

Johannesburg's 'Hijacked' Buildings: A Ticking Time Bomb

Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture

Zimbabwe’s opposition party rejects ‘flawed’ election results

Zimbabwe’s health system hangs in the balance as voters go the polls

‘The outlook could hardly be bleaker’: Zimbabwe on edge as voters prepare to go to the polls

How paradise South Africa became the continent’s top terror financing hub

Gas leak kills 17 including three children at illegal South Africa gold mine

First electricity, now water – South Africa’s infrastructure is falling apart

Philip Rankin and his wife Anita inspect their tobacco crop in 2016 just before their farm was seized

Philip Rankin and his wife Anita inspect their tobacco crop in 2016 just before their farm was seized

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