by 2summers | Sep 8, 2022 | Arts and Culture, Johannesburg, Soweto, Townships/Informal Settlements
Last Saturday afternoon I stood on Mbolekwa Street in Dlamini, Soweto, with a couple of hundred other spectators, watching teenage boys spinning around on super-long, low-slung bicycles. Most of the bikes didn’t have brakes, or even seats in some cases. The...
by 2summers | Jun 13, 2017 | #Gauteng52, Johannesburg
Welcome to Week 24 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 Turffontein Racecourse in southern Johannesburg. My home town, Baltimore, is a horse-racing town....
by 2summers | Apr 28, 2015 | Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
The Commonwealth Games, an Olympics-like sporting competition involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, are headed to Durban in 2022. The 2022 host city won’t be officially announced until September 2015, but it turns out that Durban is the only...
by 2summers | Sep 3, 2013 | Arts and Culture, Food and Drink, Johannesburg, Johannesburg City Centre, Johannesburg Transportation, Music/Festivals
I recently had a Twitter argument with a guy who said he thinks Joburg “lacks authenticity”. I never got to the root of what he meant (Twitter isn’t the place for complex debate), but I’m glad the argument happened because it got me thinking...
by 2summers | Jan 24, 2013 | Boxing, Johannesburg
On Tuesday evening I received this text message from George Khosi, coach of the Hillbrow Boxing Club: there is an accident at the gym the ring is damaged by a tax coach It took me a while to figure out that “tax” meant “taxi”. When I arrived at...