New look for Newtown
/ 2 December 2011

New look for Newtown

Newtown was the midwife to Jo’burg’s cultural rebirth, at least in the city. But its supporters will not hear that the cultural precinct has failed

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/ 20 September 2007

The good, the old and the ugly

Johannesburg, perhaps more than any other city in the country, has a heritage collection that embraces the complete tale of this land. Iron Age and Bushmen artefacts; remnants of Bantu peoples, colonials, gold diggers; apartheid resistance; and the political maturing and place of residence of the country’s most esteemed citizen, Nelson Mandela, and icons such as Mahatma Gandhi.