Alone, gazing from my window to the darkened streets below I saw a man, terror stricken and maddened, jumping wildly and howling, as he tried to escape from the ...
It’s a milestone year for Maboneng – the precinct marks 10 years of rising on the eastern rim of Joburg as an audacious reinvention of the area demarcated on maps as City and Suburban. In 2009 this ...
Much has been made of the regeneration of Johannesburg’s Maboneng district. A former crime hotspot, now the inner city precinct has been transformed into a community of creatives – think South ...
Named World Design Capital 2014, and host to the influential annual Design Indaba conference, Cape Town has left Johannesburg out of the spotlight. Most recently Adidas and Michel Gondry have both ...
The development of the Maboneng Precinct, an ambitious private development in the Johannesburg city centre that it is expected to be home to about 3 000 people within the next five years, is gaining ...
Joburg is all the things big cities are: busy, big, mad, bad, mixed and moneyed. If not moneyed then in constant flux of the hustle and grind. When I was back in the city, I stayed in the Vodacom ...
Arrowhead Properties have acquired eight buildings in the Maboneng Precinct just east of Marshalltown in the Johannesburg CBD for R180 million from the developer, Propertuity. The popular Maboneng ...
Comments Peter Collins, regional broker manager for JHI Properties in Johannesburg, "With the visionary developers recently having acquired a further 15 buildings in the precinct, demonstrating their ...
Art took shape in many different forms throughout the day as local artists commissioned by the Maboneng Precinct painted concrete posts in Fox Street in bright and colourful tones. The creation of the ...
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Residents of Johannesburg are usually divided along clear lines with regard to their affections for the city. Some love it with a passion, ...
Police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets on Sunday afternoon to restrain disruptive marchers in downtown Johannesburg, following an address to hostel dwellers by IFP president emeritus Mangosuthu ...
Lovers of good food, contemporary art and trendy shops will enjoy exploring the city's Maboneng Precinct. Known for its eclectic vibe (think New York City's Chelsea neighborhood or the Hackney area of ...