Yeoville

Friends, creatives and a city in mourning gathered to celebrate the woman who helped shape how Johannesburg saw itself after 1994.

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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