October 03, 2020
#jozi My dad has been posting some of his pics from Hilbrow and Berea in the 1960s when he lived there. This is Hilbrow now. It doesn’t look like all that much to people in many places around the world - really just some grubby 50s-70s high-rises. But Johannesburg is unique in Africa for having a true ‘urban jungle.’ Nowhere else has such a concentration of tall buildings - not Cairo. Not Lagos. It was all built on the gold dug far beneath the Earth by workers treated as less-than second-class citizens sweltering in the darkness. ...