by 2summers | May 8, 2018 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Tours, Townships/Informal Settlements
Diepsloot is one of those places, like a lot of other Joburg places, where people are afraid to go. A Diepsloot street. Diepsloot, which means “deep ditch” in Afrikaans, is a huge informal settlement in the far northern outskirts of Joburg; in fact, it is...
by 2summers | Jul 18, 2011 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Townships/Informal Settlements
UPDATE (March 2017): I wrote this post six years ago, at a time when I was pretty clueless about life in South Africa and how to write about it. I regret the title of the post and the poverty-porn-like tone that much of its prose conveys. But I have a policy of never...