Making meaning in Johannesburg
Documenting an urban housing crisis and how tens of thousands of informal workers and unemployed people struggle to reshape Johannesburg.
Johannesburg
Jivin’ in Joburg
Africa Is a Country Radio continues its season focused on African club culture. Our next stop is Johannesburg with South African journalist Sean O'Toole. Listen here and on Worldwide FM.
The exilic geographies of the South
Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a different path to some of the more classic refugee peregrinations.
Herman Mashaba wants you to forget
When considering Herman Mashaba’s new political plans, the South African public must reckon with the former mayor of Johannesburg's actual record.
Crime in South Africa
Two books tell complex and illuminating stories of how crime and corruption play out at the street level in the country's cities.
Time of the pathetic hero
Andrew Miller’s a Jozi-based freelance scribe. Years spent with a muscle disease have allowed the writer
Maboneng is on fire
David Adjaye’s plans to 'revitalize' Hallmark House in downtown Johannesburg, raises ethical questions about the city's development plans.
Thirty Days Of Joburg City
Rendani Nemakavhani (alias Missblacdropp) is a Johannesburg-based graphic designer and illustrator who initiated the collaborative project
Nakhane Toure’s Violent Streak
Nakhane Touré’s itching to make some noise. His acoustic guitar-strumming fingers are ready to shred some
Cape Town, Segregation and Hip Hop
It’s very difficult for Spaza (hip hop done mostly in Xhosa) and Afrikaans hip hop to organically co-exist.
#SAHipHop2014: @Okmalumkoolkat has a new album
In 2010, I acquired an illegal copy of The Clonious’ Between the dots LP after hearing
South African Hip Hop Series: Video Profile On Rapper Sam Turpin
“The thing about Joburg,” observes rapper and producer Sam Turpin “it’s kind of on the scale
South Africans lack table manners and posture.
The country’s first School of Etiquette situated in one of Johannesburg’s rich northern suburbs is more evidence of how much its public culture has slid to the right.
Elegy for Robo The Technician
Lesego Rampolokeng's tribute to an old school pioneer and one of the key builders of the South African hip hop scene.
The perfect wall to paint
The illustrators Fuzzy Slipperz and Skubalisto and the photographer Mooki Mooks on being an artist in present-day South Africa.
Why Is No One Else Talking About These Musicians?
I got the chance to be part of the Redbull Basscamp in Johannesburg during October 2013.
Rap Battle of the Week on Reddit: Johannesburg’s Tumi vs Atlanta’s Ness Lee
Two weeks ago, Club Zen in downtown Johannesburg got packed to its rafters with hip-hop afficionados
Good neighbors in Johannesburg
This practice in some media of making white people who live in mostly black inner city Johannesburg, out as special. No.
#Photojournal: Back To The City Festival
Back To The City is a hip-hop and street fashion festival held in Johannesburg’s Newtown Precinct
The everyday lives of African immigrants in South Africa
An alternative lens on migration stories that are often ignored in the mainstream media.