Welcome to Week 45 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 …

The Melville Cat has inspired a work of art: a gray cat designed and created by Shepherd, a 7th-Street bead artist.

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.

I was invited for lunch at the Kramerville Bakery, a bakery above a plumbing supply shop. It was so good that I had to go back for breakfast.

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

I spent an evening at the Stall Night Market at Cedar Square Mall in Fourways. Despite my initial judginess about night markets, I had a great time.

This weekend I attended the "Land That Never Forgets" exhibition at Rhodes Park in Kensington. I decided this park deserves its own #Gauteng52 post.

Over the last nearly eight years, I've written 800 blog posts. Here are some thoughts to commemorate the milestone.

Hidden behind an imposing metal fence in an office park in Modderfontein, La Marina Foods sells the freshest fish in Johannesburg.

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.

I spent the night at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, and was treated to the best massage (or massages, actually) of my life.