I am Joburg’s most passionate advocate and its fiercest defender. But I am also first to admit that Joburg is not an easy city to get to know. Jozi is …

Hello. My name is Fender. I’m a kitten from Hillbrow. Today started as the worst day of my life. My brother and me were hiding under a car next to the …

Second in my series of Sandton Snapshot posts*.* While reading my recent post about the impending publication of SandtonPlaces, you may have wondered where the …

I wrote an article for the February issue of High Life magazine – the in-flight magazine for British Airways – about my favorite quirky places in …

I’ve decided to intersperse my Sandton snapshots with Melville snapshots. I haven’t written about Melville – my home suburb – in a …

UPDATE: SandtonPlaces was published in June 2014 and is now available in bookstores around Johannesburg. For more information contact Gerald Garner at …

Swaziland is my second home in Africa. I knew Swaziland long before I knew South Africa, and long before I decided to move to Johannesburg. I’ve been to …

Last night I slept in the most beautiful place in downtown Joburg. I normally try to avoid superlatives but in this case I am not exaggerating – it was …

UPDATE (February 2021): The Blanket Shop in Clarens is no longer located on Naauwpoort Street, and is sadly no longer run by Minnie and Gertie. But their family …

Three years ago, right after I moved to Joburg, I ate at a Mexican restaurant in Melville called Café Mexicho. I was very disappointed in the meal and wrote a …

Part 3 of a 3-part series. Read part 1 and part 2. Picking up where I left off: Kagiso, the traffic register number man at Langlaagte Licensing Office, tells me …

Part 2 of a 3-part series. Read Part 1. As I was saying…I came full-circle. I started my epic journey at the Randburg Licensing Department, at 11:00 a.m. …