Pine Slopes

The regeneration of Johannesburg’s inner city has yet to be realised. The middle classes are hesitant and the impoverished are fighting to stay put.

So writes Mary Corrigall in an important new piece on SA urban spaces:

Commissioner Street is a good place to locate an inexpensive lunch of slap chips and Russians. This bustling city street is flanked by budget shops flogging clothing, cheap tupperware and faux gold clocks and is lined with informal traders purveying polished red apples displayed in tattered green plastic plates. It is a hub of crude commerce that seems an unlikely place for a contemporary art gallery with allusions to wealth and sophistication. But it is in this incongruous setting in Jozi’s inner city that Charl Bezuidenhout established Worldart nearly a year ago.

• Complete piece on Kagablog