Cycle Joburg With Kennedy
Over the past couple of months I've participated in two Joburg tours with Kennedy Tembo of Micro-adventure Tours. Kennedy offers all kinds of innovative, outdoorsy tours in Joburg and surrounding areas -- from Gauteng [...]
JoburgPlaces and the Restoration of Somerset House
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 [...]
Cycling Tour Through Diepsloot
Diepsloot is one of those places, like a lot of other Joburg places, where people are afraid to go. A Diepsloot street. Diepsloot, which means "deep ditch" in Afrikaans, is a huge informal settlement [...]
Skateboarding Across Jozi
I consider myself a connoisseur of Joburg walking tours. When I found out there is a skateboarding tour of Joburg, I obviously had to try it. From left to right: Ayanda, Tiffanie, Marie-Lais, and [...]
The Heritage of Johannesburg’s Middle-Class Suburbs
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 [...]
#JoziWalks: Exploring Johannesburg’s Forgotten Frontiers
Last weekend the Johannesburg Development Agency sponsored 13 walking tours all over the city as part of an initiative called #JoziWalks. The weekend was meant to encourage Joburgers to get out of their cars [...]
Touring Joburg’s Mosques and Minarets
Joburg's religious diversity is one of my favorite things about the city. There are so many beautiful churches and mosques and temples, representing every faith imaginable, and while I'm not a religious person I [...]
Roving Johannesburg With the Roving Bantu
A few months ago, I briefly referred to a place in Brixton called the Roving Bantu Kitchen. In December I wrote a short review of the Roving Bantu Kitchen for JHBLive, but I held off on writing [...]