Alone, gazing from my window to the darkened streets below I saw a man, terror stricken and maddened, jumping wildly and howling, as he tried to escape from the ...

Lovers of good food, contemporary art and trendy shops will enjoy exploring the city's Maboneng Precinct. Known for its eclectic vibe (think New York City's Chelsea neighborhood or the Hackney area of ...

It’s a milestone year for Maboneng – the precinct marks 10 years of rising on the eastern rim of Joburg as an audacious reinvention of the area demarcated on maps as City and Suburban. In 2009 this ...

The development of the Maboneng Precinct, an ambitious private development in the Johannesburg city centre that it is expected to be home to about 3 000 people within the next five years, is gaining ...

Joburg is all the things big cities are: busy, big, mad, bad, mixed and moneyed. If not moneyed then in constant flux of the hustle and grind. When I was back in the city, I stayed in the Vodacom ...

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. Residents of Johannesburg are usually divided along clear lines with regard to their affections for the city. Some love it with a passion, ...

A recently redeveloped area in downtown Johannesburg, this is where grunge meets art and a bit of South African culture. The name Maboneng means “lights,” a play on its nickname “City of Lights.” It ...

Jonathan Liebmann, the founder of Propertuity, the company that owns and developed what many see as the embodiment of regeneration in the inner city, says he will take his Maboneng model to the West ...

Much has been made of the regeneration of Johannesburg’s Maboneng district. A former crime hotspot, now the inner city precinct has been transformed into a community of creatives – think South ...

Police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets on Sunday afternoon to restrain disruptive marchers in downtown Johannesburg, following an address to hostel dwellers by IFP president emeritus Mangosuthu ...