Arts and Culture (Category) - 324 posts

Hannah Pirnie and her company, Translating Me, are here to help you with every aspect of moving and adjusting to life in Joburg.

August House is a building in the Joburg CBD with 50 artist studios and residences. I visited for the first time during their November Open Studios event.

One month after its opening, I visited the Jacob Zuma Arrest Site in Groot Marico, Northwest Province. It was...an interesting experience.

I spent half a day in Cullinan, a historic diamond-mining town northeast of Pretoria. I did pretty much everything except tour the diamond mine.

Fortiscue and Nokuthula Helepi founded African Flavour Books, an all-African in the Vaal in 2013. They recently opened a second shop in Braamfontein.

Welcome to Week 40 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I …

During the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation's annual Heritage Weekend, I walked through two of historic middle-class suburbs, Killarney and Forest Town.

Heather (2Summers) and Meruschka (Mzansigirl) are hosting a #WalkMyCity tour of Joburg, sponsored by Hi-Tec. We're visiting all kinds of cool secret places.

Johannesburg has a fantastic collection of well-maintained public pools. The Zoo Lake Swimming Pool is one of the best and most popular of the pools.

I spent a morning exploring Marabastad, a vibrant, historic, chaotic shopping district just outside of downtown Pretoria.

I finally got to visit the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sergius, the church with the gleaming gold domes in Midrand that's visible from the N1 Highway.

Welcome to Week 36 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I …