A Brixton High Street Stroll
I've been living in Brixton, one of Joburg's oldest suburbs, for nearly five years. I blog about Brixton all the time and I've led multiple walking tours here. But I hardly ever go to [...]
How to Explore Joburg With Older People
My dad, Tenney, and his longtime partner, Debbie, visited Joburg from America a couple of weeks ago. Dad hadn't been here since 2013 and Debbie had never been, so I was excited for their [...]
Protesting Life Without Water in Joburg
As of today, my street in Brixton has been without water for 14 days. In other words, not a drop of water has come out of our faucets for two full weeks. There's no [...]
Buying and Renovating a House in Joburg, Part 2
Ten weeks ago, when I published my first Buying and Renovating a House in Joburg post, I envisioned my second post would be the triumphant culmination of the story. I imagined returning just after [...]
Joburg Photos of the Week: Cleanup with the African Reclaimers
On Saturday morning, in the middle of a very heavy rainstorm, 70 members of the African Reclaimers Organization came to Brixton to do a major cleanup with our community. Despite the absolutely terrible weather, [...]
Joburg Photo(s) of the Week: A Brixton Mosaic
I couldn't narrow it down to a single photo this week, so here is a series of photos I took of three artists working on a mosaic for our Brixton house. Gavasa and [...]
Joburg’s Kente Cloth Weaver
I've known for a while about Steve Appiah, a Ghanaian man living in Joburg who weaves Kente cloth. I originally met Steve at the Bryanston Market, one of the craft markets where he sells [...]
Buying and Renovating a House in Joburg, Part 1
Many of you know this already, but Thorsten and I recently bought a house in Joburg. The house is in Brixton, where we currently live, and we're in the process of renovating the house. We [...]
15 Years of 2Summers in Joburg
This post first appeared in Johannesburg In Your Pocket. I published my first blog post on 6 June 2010, making this month the 15th anniversary of the 2Summers blog. (I didn’t actually move to [...]
Dennis Dlomo’s Fantastic Fitness Club
For nearly three years, Thorsten and I have watched and listened to the exercise classes happening in Kingston Frost Park behind our Brixton house. We walked past many times and spoke to Dennis Dlomo, [...]
A Very Sad Goodbye to Brixton the Cat
I was ambivalent about writing this post. The last time I wrote about Brixton -- a cat named after a suburb -- was in December 2022, a few weeks after she walked into our [...]
The Spectacular Brixton Light Festival, Revisited
Last weekend I attended the Brixton Light Festival (hereafter referred to as the BLF) for the second consecutive year. I wrote a comprehensive post about the BLF last year, so in the days leading [...]