My quest to visit all of the places featured in the Hidden Johannesburg book continues. With my recent trip to the Freemasons' Hall, which I'm about to tell you about, I have now visited 20 of the 28 [...]
For the newest installment in my Hidden Joburg series, I visited a church in Hillbrow that I've been curious about for years. The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen is around the [...]
The Radium Beer Hall, known as "Joburg's oldest running bar" -- there are older bars, but none of them have remained open continuously for as long as the Radium -- is not a new [...]
My quest to visit all the places in the Hidden Johannesburg book -- which began with my pilgrimage to the Lemon Squeezer Church and then a visit to the Lions Shul -- continues. I [...]
Yesterday I visited the Doornfontein Shul -- commonly known as the Lions Shul -- in downtown Joburg. The shul, built in 1905, is featured in Hidden Johannesburg, which I blogged about recently in my [...]
I've been visiting the Rand Club, one of Joburg's most historic buildings, for years. The Rand Club is on the corner of Fox and Loveday Streets in downtown Joburg. Although the club was founded [...]
I recently bought a copy of Hidden Johannesburg, a hardback coffee table book featuring 28 of Joburg's most interesting (and difficult to access, in some cases) buildings and interiors. Hidden Johannesburg, written by Paul [...]
Although the Nizamiye Mosque is huge and impossible to miss when driving north on the M1 highway, it remains one of Joburg's best kept secrets. The Nizamiye Masjid (mosque) in Midrand. I think most [...]
I last blogged about the Rand Club -- one of the oldest, most historic, most colonial buildings in Joburg, founded by Cecil John Rhodes -- more than six years ago. Outside the Rand Club [...]
Sometimes in my quest to discover all of Joburg's hidden places, I miss out on the un-hidden ones. Such is the case with Mandela House, the Mandela family's former home on Vilakazi Street in [...]
The weekend after Heritage Day, the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation has an annual tradition of offering a whole programme of tours at very affordable prices. There are about a dozen tours to choose from over the [...]
Yesterday my friend Ted invited me to check out the flat he just bought on the 13th floor of the Anstey's Building. Anstey's is a legendary art deco high-rise in the center of downtown [...]