What used to be called the Rosebank Rooftop Market is now the Rosebank Sunday Market and it’s a fabulous place to browse, eat, drink and relax, and … if you’re like me, …. buy … on a Sunday morning. It is much better laid out than before – more spacious and with the different sections well […]
Read More »There is an exciting new addition to the Maboneng precinct: a public art project conceptualized by Kim Lieberman. From warehouse to Arts on Main to Maboneng – gentrification spreads Arts on Main was the first development in the ever-increasing neighbourhood of Maboneng. In 2008/9 Jonathan Liebmann bought a block of warehouses (the old Corlett Construction […]
Read More »Following the prisoner with garlands of flowers He must have cut a strange figure. A small man in prison clothing surrounded by prison warders (having arrived by train from a Volksrust prison) being walked from Park Station to the Old Fort in Braamfontein. This vignette was made all the more unusual because of a following […]
Read More »How’s this for an AMAZING initiative. Not ONE free walk, but THIRTEEN … all over the week-end of the 24th and 25th June. #JoziWalks is a series of free walking tours initiated by the Johannesburg Development Agency in partnership with local community activists, tourism entrepreneurs, walking tour operators, and the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation. Because I suffer from […]
Read More »Hallmark House 34 Siemert Street, New Doornfontien abutting Maboneng North As part of the tour with Johannesburg Development Agency (arranged by Laurice Taitz of Johannesburg In Your Pocket) it was a real treat to visit Hallmark House. Hallmark House, a […]
Read More »By now followers will be getting to know that I am the QoG aka Queen of Grids. I make sense of things in overall summaries either through spider diagrams (initial creative explorations) or through grids (final arrangements). I’m also passionate about exploring Jozi in all its grittiness and made contrasts; and Jozi heritage is one of my many passions.
Read More »This was the first question I was faced with recently at the breakfast table. Guests wanted to buy Sheshwe cloth to take home to Germany. With its German origins they felt a particular connection to this indigo blue cloth which has become so synonymous with South African traditional fabric.
Read More »Jozi heritage site: Windybrow A few months ago I set off to Doornfontein on the edge of Hillbrow, to join a tour of the revamped and restored building which I used to know as the Windybrow Theatre. (My source of all that is really new and happening within the city is often Laurice Taitz of […]
Read More »Kliptown: Soweto’s Cinderella I wrote last year about the SKY (Soweto Kliptown Youth) Foundation and Mighty Evolution Kids Nursery Preschool. (Both are located to the west of the railway line. SKY shown as Kliptown Youth Program on the map below). I spoke about the amazing tenacity of community members and their will to do the […]
Read More »Chinese New Year 2017 For many who don’t know the history and context of Chinese New Year it seems to be a never-ending movable feast of celebrations taking place over several week-ends. In 2017 Chinese New Year falls on 29th January and festivities will be held at the Nan Hua Buddhist temple in Bronkorstpruit on […]
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