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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I'm struggling to figure out how to start writing this post because I'm struggling to figure out how to explain koesisters. A koesister from Yola's kitchen. The koesister ranks among South Africa's most iconic [...]
After last year's Brixton Light Festival, lots of people read my blog post and were sad they missed the festival and asked how they could be sure not to miss the next one. So [...]
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 [...]