/ 8 January 2023

Public artists strive to redeem Joburg’s blighted inner city

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One of Andrew Lindsay’s mosaics in Bezuidenhout Road, Bertrams (near Ellis Park). This one represents the 1922 Miner’s Strike.
A public art team aims to roll back the squalor and spiritual deformity of downtown Johannesburg. Its latest project looks for meaning in a senseless murder

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