Latest articles on Yeoville

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

Business Dennis Webster - 18 May 2020

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

Yeoville can police itself, thank you

Article Simon Allison - 8 Apr 2020

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

You gotta be the morning aftertaste

Article Graeme Feltham - 22 Nov 2019

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

What is normal in a big, bad world?

Article Staff Reporter - 27 Jul 2018

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

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

Article Govan Whittles - 17 Nov 2017

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

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.

Guillaume Rossouw: The last punk returns home

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Sep 2015

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

‘Yeoville was my visual therapy’ – Gideon Mendel

Article Staff Reporter - 31 Oct 2014

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

All aboard the night tour

Article Staff Reporter - 30 Aug 2013

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

The El Bulli of Yeoville

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Feb 2013

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

Street of a past that foretold a future

Article Nechama Brodie - 10 Aug 2012

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.

A house, a home and hope that refuses to die

Article Tiisetso Makube - 10 Aug 2012

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

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

Article Percy Zvomuya - 10 Aug 2012

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

Walking the dog in Bellevue

Article Barbara Ludman - 14 Jun 2012

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

Desperately seeking dive like Ekhaya

Article Vusi Mona - 8 Jun 2012

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

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