An Interview with Samuel Madzivanyika
Posted August 30, 2017
An interview with current Hillbrow resident, Samuel Madzivanyika. Sam is a Zimbabwean national who initially came to Johannesburg South Africa in 2014. Sam came...Tag: Hillbrow
An Interview with Melanie Malema
Posted July 22, 2017
An interview with former Hillbrow resident, Melanie Malema. Ms. Malema moved into Hillbrow in the late 1980s and lived in the iconic Ponte Towers...
Johannesburg Stories
Posted May 25, 2017
There are a million stories in the big city. Phaswane Mpe decided to tell the stories of Refentse and Refilwe two aspiring writers from...
A Second Look at Hillbrow
Posted May 11, 2017
Let’s take a second look at the Johannesburg neighborhood of Hillbrow, its rise, its decline, and its current rejuvenation! Al Jazeera English produced a...
What’s in a Name?
Posted May 8, 2017
One interpretation of Mpe’s meticulous description of Hillbrow as a neighborhood, its boundaries and street names is that he not only wanted to paint...
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Posted April 11, 2017
Hillbrow is a residential suburb of Johannesburg, or what we would call an inner city neighborhood. The neighborhood of Hillbrow is also the focus...