by 2summers | Dec 13, 2022 | Brixton, Johannesburg, The Melville/Brixton Cats
As I write this, I’m sitting in my aunt’s house in chilly Sleepy Hollow, New York. But let me backtrack a couple of weeks to a summer day in Johannesburg, South Africa, when I was typing away in my home office and a skinny black kitten walked through the...
by 2summers | Oct 25, 2022 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Food and Drink, Johannesburg, Tours
Thorsten, my architect boyfriend, and I recently led a walking tour of Brixton, our home suburb, on behalf of the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation. That tour was a big success so we’ve decided to strike out on our own and host another one — a...
by 2summers | Jun 28, 2022 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings, Religion
I’ve been doom-scrolling too much and sleeping too little lately. The U.S. government has been hijacked by right-wing zealots. Women’s rights have been rolled back by 50 years. The South African government can’t provide basic services to its people...
by 2summers | Feb 8, 2022 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds, Music/Festivals
Johannesburg is not an easy place in which to exist. We’ve got electricity problems and water problems and crime problems. Obtaining a visa to live in South Africa is a near-impossible task that keeps getting harder. I don’t like to admit this, but...
by 2summers | Dec 10, 2021 | Brixton, COVID-19, Emotions, Johannesburg
Greetings from the Omicron epicenter! I imagine lots of people in other parts of the world, and even elsewhere in South Africa, are wondering what’s really happening with the Omicron variant in Gauteng. We’ve got some first-hand experience at the Blogitect...
by 2summers | Oct 7, 2021 | Brixton, Emotions, Johannesburg
Last week I moved from Melville, the central Joburg suburb where I’ve lived for the past 11 years, to Brixton, another central Joburg suburb about five minutes away. Here I am in a Brixton alleyway not far from my new house. I didn’t realize until...