by 2summers | Jan 25, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings
It’s been two months since Thorsten and I joined a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation tour of three crazy houses on New Mountain Road in Linksfield Ridge. I have very limited time to write this post (I’m getting on a plane to Namibia tomorrow — more on...
by 2summers | Sep 14, 2021 | Brixton, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings, Parks/Nature Reserves
On Sunday I stopped by a cleanup event at the Brixton Cemetery, hosted by the Friends of Johannesburg Cemeteries. The volunteer group regularly organizes cleanups at different cemeteries around the city, picking up rubbish and restoring the older headstones. A...
by 2summers | Jan 26, 2020 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings, Tours
The Ruins of Rose Road The moment I saw the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation announce this tour — even before I read the description — I signed up. I had never heard of Rose Road. But the tour’s title was so evocative…My mind’s eye...
by 2summers | May 3, 2019 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Markets/Shopping, Melville and Surrounds, Museums and Buildings
Once upon a time, about 130 years ago, a group of Zulu men called the AmaWasha ran a business washing clothes beside a stream, on the outskirts of a ramshackle mining town called Johannesburg. The water in this stream was particularly good for clothes-washing. Soon a...
by 2summers | Aug 14, 2018 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Museums and Buildings, Tours
About three years ago, I was roaming around downtown Joburg on a drizzly Sunday afternoon with some photographer friends. As we walked along Fox Street near the corner of Rissik Street, just behind Gandhi Square, we noticed an open doorway and walked inside. I...