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Yeoville

The Rockey road to freedom: An oasis in the madness
National
/ 24 December 2023

The Rockey road to freedom: An oasis in the madness

Yeoville in 1994 was the radical, hedonistic heart of South African creativity. Thirty years later, Carlos Amato asked some of its denizens what the dream meant – and where it went

By Carlos Amato
The cathedral of my heart, Yeoville library
National
/ 6 April 2023

The cathedral of my heart, Yeoville library

Long gone now, the library in one of Joburg’s most fabled suburbs, offered a whole lot more to me than books

By Sarah Smit
City Power recovers R500 000 worth of illegal aluminium electricity cables; what does this mean for paying customers
National
/ 9 June 2022

City Power recovers R500 000 worth of illegal aluminium electricity cables; what does this mean for paying customers

The utility buys R11-bn of electricity from Eskom which it needs to sell to make revenue and reinvest but instead it loses R2-bn a year due to illegal connections

By Sonri Naidoo
Experience Africa in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town
Africa
/ 25 May 2022

Experience Africa in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town

If you had the opportunity to explore South Africa, to really see it, be confused by it, fall in love with the good, bad and the ugly, where would you start?  Think of the last trip you took, local or international. Can you truthfully say that you know that city, its people, the food and […]

By Gugulethu Tshabalala
The scramble for Africa in fine dining
Friday
/ 14 December 2021

The scramble for Africa in fine dining

Even if Black cuisine were equally represented, the White diner’s gaze will continue to define it

By Zamansele Nsele
what life; i insist on dying here
Friday
/ 21 May 2021

what life; i insist on dying here

Mbe Mbhele meditates on death and blackness on the occasion of his father’s funeral

By Mbe Mbhele
Not all of Jo’burg’s street traders can sell their wares under lockdown
Business
/ 18 May 2020

Not all of Jo’burg’s street traders can sell their wares under lockdown

Street traders are central to food security in Johannesburg. But since being declared an essential service under lockdown, street trade in South Africa’s biggest city has returned to uneven ground

By Dennis Webster
Yeoville can police itself, thank you
Article
/ 8 April 2020

Yeoville can police itself, thank you

In the Johannesburg suburb, neat queues are enforced, physical distances maintained and fights stopped by its community policing forum

By Simon Allison
You gotta be the morning aftertaste
Article
/ 22 November 2019

You gotta be the morning aftertaste

Drug user, and later dealer, Fig lives in Yeoville in the mid-1990s. Not a novel for the faint-hearted

By Graeme Feltham
What is normal in a big, bad world?
Article
/ 27 July 2018

What is normal in a big, bad world?

"I felt compassion for the fact that they are cops in Johannesburg and, to them, this is a normal way to treat another human".

By Milisuthando Bongela
‘We’re going to change the Jo’burg skyline’
Article
/ 17 November 2017

‘We’re going to change the Jo’burg skyline’

A new mixed-income housing plan in Jo’burg includes refurbishing ‘hijacked’ buildings

By Govan Whittles
From slum city to urban living hub: How Jo’burg got its groove back
Article
/ 27 October 2017

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

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.

By Lucas Ledwaba
Guillaume Rossouw: The last punk returns home
Article
/ 16 September 2015

Guillaume Rossouw: The last punk returns home

The guy behind the counter at the Bohemian is out to give the scene a swift kick in the pants.

By Staff Reporter
‘Yeoville was my visual therapy’ – Gideon Mendel
Article
/ 31 October 2014

‘Yeoville was my visual therapy’ – Gideon Mendel

Gideon Mendel revisits his selection of photographs, that show the 1980s Yeoville scene, in his latest exhibition "Living in Yeoville Revisited".

By Staff Reporter
All aboard the night tour
Article
/ 30 August 2013

All aboard the night tour

A kaleidoscopic 
night tour that is a 
welcome departure from Jo’burg’s silent northern suburbs.

By Laurice Taitz
The El Bulli of Yeoville
Article
/ 15 February 2013

The El Bulli of Yeoville

Sanza Sandile is at the crossroads of African fusion — and he wants everyone to taste what he is cooking.

By Eve Fairbanks
Street of a past that foretold a future
Article
/ 10 August 2012

Street of a past that foretold a future

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.

By Nechama Brodie
A house, a home and hope that refuses to die
Article
/ 10 August 2012

A house, a home and hope that refuses to die

Yes, it is true what they say about South Africa and Johannesburg in particular: it is home to all of Africa.

By Tiisetso Makube
Where Africans can mingle in peace and not-so-quiet
Article
/ 10 August 2012

Where Africans can mingle in peace and not-so-quiet

Yeoville is home to Africans from all over the continent, as the shops on the busy street attest, writes Percy Zvomuya.

By Percy Zvomuya
Walking the dog in Bellevue
Article
/ 14 June 2012

Walking the dog in Bellevue

The neighbourhood has changed a lot, but the children and scraps make Mickey happy, writes Barbara Ludman.

By Barbara Ludman
Desperately seeking dive like Ekhaya
Article
/ 8 June 2012

Desperately seeking dive like Ekhaya

I thoroughly enjoyed Bongani Madondo’s tribute to the late shebeen queen Sue Mabale, writes Vusi Mona

By Vusi Mona
All hail Sue, Sin City’s salon queen
Article
/ 18 May 2012

All hail Sue, Sin City’s salon queen

Sue Mabale, host of one of Jo’burg’s most eatery joints, died recently. Friend and former pub crawler Bongani Madondo doffs a hat to her spirit.

By Bongani Madondo

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