A City Hall concert and a community centre workshop expose the fault lines in who gets to experience and own the city's cultural soul.
Havana is in Cape Town - The Demography of a Concert Hall
BOOK REVIEWS
I presented this story at the Valentine's Day Johannesburg Heritage Foundation celebration on the lawns of Northwards and thought Heritage Portal readers would also enjoy this South African story of love, endurance and resilience against the backdrop of the Second World War. It was one of seven presented at this event.
BLUE PLAQUES
Sophie Masite was a pioneer of democratic local government, and the first black woman mayor in South Africa. She was the leader of the rent boycott in Soweto in the 1980s, but insisted on payment for services when the political motivation for boycott ended. From 1995 – 1997, she was Mayor of the Southern Metropolitan Substructure including Soweto.