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After more than four months of lockdown, the Joburg Botanical Gardens and Emmarentia Dam are finally open again. I went to check things out this morning.

It's been a couple of weeks since I blogged about lockdown, and now I've built up lots of thoughts and ideas I need to share.

Last week I participated in a tour of Paterson Park, on the border of Norwood and Orange Grove, to check out the public art projects in progress there.

Today, restaurants around South Africa spoke out about the damage to their industry by putting their tables out onto the street.

Today I visited the Melville food parcel program for the first time in two weeks. The volunteers are wearing hazmat suits to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Hello. After blogging mostly every day for the first 100 days of South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, I took a full week off. This is weird. It feels like …

On the 100th day of the South African lockdown, I take a look back at this journal series and highlight my top five lockdown posts.

On Day 99 of the lockdown, I went to the Hillbrow Boxing Club for the first time since March. It was so nice to see George and the renovations to the club.

It’s Day 98 of the South African lockdown, which I literally cannot believe. Earlier today I suddenly thought back to my Day 9 post, when I said it felt …

I’ve been thinking all day about what to name this post, or what kind of theme or subject to give it, or whatever. But today is Day 97 of the lockdown, …

Today, after a week or so of procrastination, I returned to the Aranda blanket factory in Randfontein. After my previous Basotho blanket post, a reader in …

The Melville Cat normally speaks for himself on this blog. But today, for some reason, I feel like speaking for the two of us. Smokey, the Melville Cat, in his …