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An unlikely partnership of property owners, Congolese refugees and the pioneer gentrifiers have decided to turn Muizenberg around. They formed a residents’ committee to lobby the…
At The Bovine Head Cookers’ Market, sheep heads, which arrive frozen in municipal plastic bags, are deftly skinned and chopped with cleavers. The meat is then boiled in big pots,…
Lindiwe Mvula is eighth in line, waiting with her trolley outside a recycling plant in Johannesburg’s Newtown. She’s there to sell the used cardboard and plastic she collects…
Take a walk through Ntuthukoville, a low-income residential area in Pietermaritzburg. The roads are clean. Gardens are well cared for, with flowers and shrubs, paths and edgings.…
Selina Boyani’s Soweto shack, which she shares with four children, is a little larger than a single bed. It is dark, cramped and poorly ventilated, but it has one crucial…
When both the owner and caretaker gave up on Everest, an 11-storey flat block in Johannesburg’s notorious Hillbrow, the job of building manager did not look attractive. In 1999…
”With one fluid movement, Mabele’s assistant heaves the bleating goat over his shoulder and into the open boot of the car. He then repeats the process with the second goat,…
