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
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
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.
Pioneering architect Hermann Kallenbach purchased this site in 1909. He and his friend M K Gandhi camped in a bell tent on the hillside until Kallenbach built a thatched stone rondavel. Gandhi stayed here with Kallenbach on occasion, as did Indian statesman G.K. Gokhale during his 1912 South African tour.