Cities in general have a masculine vision. This needs to change
The urban land question is urgent and needs to be placed at the centre of our national conversation
Returning home to attend a traditional burial reminds urbanite Johnny Masilela of the richness of rural culture.
The ANC’s diminishing share of the vote in the metropoles, particularly in Gauteng, has inspired a burst of soul-searching in the ruling party.
The continent’s cities are built very differently to those in Europe, and a new book dedicates ?itself to these singular settlements.
Yes, it is true what they say about South Africa and Johannesburg in particular: it is home to all of Africa.
Yeoville is home to Africans from all over the continent, as the shops on the busy street attest, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Rockey Street was a beachhead of the new South Africa in the late Eighties and the Nineties, but it has seen a lot of changes since those heady days.
What drives people to move to Jo’burg, when it’s clear that no matter how well-earned its ‘great city’ status is, it won’t give them what they seek?
It is important to understand the relationship
between the country’s dynamics and its inhabitants.
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/ 20 October 2009
The United Nations and international agencies came to Juba after the war, pushing up the price of the little housing that is available.