Glancing round the modern apartment high above the streets of downtown Johannesburg, it’s hard to believe we’re in one of the most notorious buildings in South Africa.

The view is spectacular from the top of Ponte Tower, one of the most famous buildings in the South African city of ...

New chapter for Ponte City as Johannesburg’s skyline fixture seeks ... topped with South Africa’s most desirable outdoor advertising ... one, two, three and four-bedroom apartments, ...

Africa’s first cylindrical skyscraper, Ponte City – a focal point of Johannesburg’s skyline for the past 50 years – is being sold by Broll Auctions and Sales by private tender.

Johannesburg’s skyline has a heartbeat and for decades Ponte Tower has been its most striking pulse. This 54-floor cylindrical giant, rising 173 metres above the city (185m if you count the tip ...

A fire tore through a multistory, derelict building filled with squatters in Johannesburg, killing at least 74 people, among them a dozen children, in one of South Africa’s deadliest residential ...

Ponte City. For a long time, Johannesburg’s tallest apartment building – a hollow cylinder of brick and glass – stood as a monument to a half-century of strife, struggle and neglect.

PERCHED on a hill, the highest residential building in South Africa seems even taller than its 54 stories as it looms over one of the most feared neighbourhoods in Johannesburg.

The blaze struck an abandoned building that had become a crowded squatter settlement. The authorities were investigating the cause. The site of a deadly blaze in downtown Johannesburg, South ...