by 2summers | Nov 10, 2022 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Markets/Shopping
I recently joined the Rand Club, which holds a couple of black-tie events each year. When it came time to attend our first fancy function, the Club’s 135th-anniversary gala, Thorsten and I considered his black-tie options. He didn’t own a tux, we...
by 2summers | May 9, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg
Read all my lockdown journal posts. It’s Lockdown Day 44 in South Africa. I bought a new mask. Lockdown photo 44: Mask fashion. I’m becoming less and less interested in just about everything these days. But I’ve become progressively more interested...
by 2summers | Apr 17, 2018 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Markets/Shopping, Melville and Surrounds
As I’ve said before, I consider myself to be an unfashionable person. But the longer I live in South Africa, the more fashionable I feel. I find the fashion in South Africa — and Africa in general — more fun than fashion in the United States. (No...
by 2summers | May 9, 2017 | #Gauteng52, Arts and Culture, Johannesburg
Welcome to Week 19 of my #Gauteng52 challenge, for which I will visit and blog about a new place in Gauteng Province every week for 52 straight weeks. This week I visit Aranda Textile Mills, home of the Basotho blanket. Basotho blankets are not made in Lesotho, the...
by 2summers | Nov 24, 2016 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Markets/Shopping
I first visited the Oriental Plaza six-and-a-half years ago, on 18 August 2010, 12 days after I moved to Johannesburg. I know this because I wrote a blog post about it the following day. The first photo I ever took at the Oriental Plaza, in August 2010. I’ve...