Creator
Marie Huchzermeyer
Marie Huchzermeyer is an academic and public intellectual at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The Brixton light festival is at a juncture
Can the lights shine as bright when Joburg is crumbling around it?
Bank branches off from the poor
Standard Bank’s decision to close branches and push its app excludes low-income households and the informal sector
A single ‘developer’ seeks to make a farce of spatial justice in Johannesburg
A spatial framework agreed on through a participatory process with Brixton and Rossmore’s people is threatened by a businessman and his expansion plan
‘Noma’ uses an intimate and personal vignette to humanise the land issue
Film maker Pablo Pinedo’s documentary is aimed at the comfortable classes, revealing a tale of bravery, destruction, creativity and endurance.
Cycling is still an uphill battle
Many obstacles stand in the way of Jo’burg’s nonmotorised project, but it’s a good start.
Journal publishes and is damned
An article has caused academics’ simmering row over a social movement to boil over.
Spy in the sky: Whose drone is it anyway?
Who was behind the drone filming a protest march: a private cameraman, an award-aiming film-maker, the media, or intelligence gathering machinery?
Can we please talk face to face?
Social media resisters are being left out – and then there are CIA and consumerist pitfalls.
New struggle is for ownership of the city
The post-apartheid experiment has dismally failed the poor’s right to urban redress.