In the article below, journalist Lucille Davie profiles architect Peter Rich, whose decade of research into Ndebele place-making shaped a career of museums, community centres and homes across Africa and beyond. From the Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre to the Alexandra Heritage Centre, she traces how his buildings grow out of the communities they
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Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River
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Designed in 1935 by Emley and Williamson for Norman Anstey, founder of the elegant department store of the same name, which occupied the first four floors. Two apartment wings soar another twelve storeys with magnificent views of the city. Cecil Williams, actor, playwright and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe lived here. Nelson Mandela was disguised as his driver when captured on 5 August 1962.