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The Portfolio: Global Africa Lab

Friday Global Africa Lab - 22 Jul 2020

A project by Global Africa Lab explores the future of Black neighbourhoods affected by gentrification in New York City

Regeneration vs gentrification

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 15 Nov 2019

Jo’burg’s Reserve Street has birthed several new spaces over the past two years. But at what cost?

Façade reveals Jozi’s entrails

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 21 Sep 2018

Happy Dhlame’s gritty exhibition weighs up the human cost of gentrification in the city

Developer withdraws interdict against Bo-Kaap

Article Raeesa Pather - 31 Jul 2018

Blok, a property development company, has withdrawn its interdict against Bo-Kaap residents in the “spirit of de-escalation”

Berlin’s hipsters want Google out

Article Daphne Rousseau - 15 Jun 2018

The tech giant’s planned campus in the German city angers anti-gentrification campaigners

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M.I.A tackles gentrification amid Woodstock concert controversy

Article Raeesa Pather - 7 Jun 2018

M.I.A is known for her anti-capitalist stance. So the choice to perform at a symbol of gentrification in Woodstock raised speculation among her fans.

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I like your new restaurant, but not in my neighbourhood

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 22 Mar 2018

This documentary weaves the truth about gentrification today with a history of capitalist spatial planning

Twin buildings still echo the changes in Salt River

Article Raeesa Pather - 21 Dec 2017

The Rex Trueform textile company employed generations of coloured people and its sale marks the end of an era that defined the area

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God’s pauper walks the talk

Article Paddy Harper - 21 Dec 2017

Durban’s lone street preacher follows a calling that eschews all physical comforts

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From slum city to urban living hub: How Jo’burg got its groove back

Article Lucas Ledwaba - 27 Oct 2017

Home is not necessarily a glittering castle. It can be a cramped room on the first floor of an old, rundown building and the subject of a court case.

Evolving, cynical and everything in between

Article Kiri Rupiah - 1 Sep 2017

Kudzanai Chiurai’s latest exhibition goes beyond Revelations and Genesis into a more challenging space

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Cape Town, use prime municipal land in the heart of the city to house the poor

Analysis Staff Reporter - 9 Sep 2016

Municipal property in the city should not be sold but used to build affordable housing

Evictions in Woodstock and the resistance against apartheid spatial planning

Article Raeesa Pather - 2 Sep 2016

People in the community are still waiting for permanent housing as the settlement grows in size and helplessness.

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A City Refracted: Graeme Williams shoot the city’s innards

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 29 Oct 2015

Graeme Williams returns to track changes in the city in colour.

Urban renewal’s bourgeois curse

Article bogdan TagDiv - 8 Aug 2014

As rental prices go up and neighbourhoods begin to look the same, artists nationwide are finding themselves out in the cold.

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