Early Saturday Morning at the Pretoria Boeremark
A couple of Saturdays ago, my friends Fiver and Stuart and I woke up at before 5:00 a.m. and drove an hour north to the Pretoria Boeremark in Silverton. I've been meaning to check [...]
Sobae Sorbet: A Frozen Joburg Love Story
Today is Heritage Day, a holiday celebrating South Africa's incredible cultural diversity. It's also the unofficial start of summer and a day when South Africans celebrate their diversity by grilling meat. (Heritage Day has [...]
A Bryanston Shopping Spree
I don’t go to Joburg’s northern suburbs often. To be honest, the northern suburbs — Sandton, Bryanston, Morningside, Fourways, etc. — remind me too much of the bland American suburbs that I fled to [...]
Yo Yo, Yeoville
Yeoville, much like Hillbrow and other inner-city suburbs in Jozi, has transformed over the last three decades. Once an artsy, mixed-race (but primarily white) neighborhood, similar to Melville, Yeoville is now a chaotic, pan-African cocktail-shaker. [...]
Breakfast at Bamboo
One of the unfortunate realities about life in Joburg is that if you need something, you’ll probably have to go a shopping mall to buy it. And the malls here are sprawling, crowded, and [...]