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Marie Huchzermeyer

Marie Huchzermeyer is an academic and public intellectual at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The lantern procession moving through the Brixton area at The Brixton Light Festival. (Photo by Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius)

The Brixton light festival is at a juncture

Can the lights shine as bright when Joburg is crumbling around it?

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Bank branches off from the poor

Standard Bank’s decision to close branches and push its app excludes low-income households and the informal sector

The Sentec Tower in Brixton.

A single ‘developer’ seeks to make a farce of spatial justice in Johannesburg

A spatial framework agreed on through a participatory process with Brixton and Rossmore’s people is threatened by a businessman and his expansion plan

Landless: In capturing an intimate snapshot of a shack dweller’s plight

‘Noma’ uses an intimate and personal vignette to humanise the land issue

Film maker Pablo Pinedo’s documentary is aimed at the comfortable classes, revealing a tale of bravery, destruction, creativity and endurance.

Cycling is still an uphill battle

Many obstacles stand in the way of Jo’burg’s nonmotorised project, but it’s a good start.

Journal publishes and is damned

An article has caused academics’ simmering row over a social movement to boil over.

Remotely piloted aerial systems

Spy in the sky: Whose drone is it anyway?

Who was behind the drone filming a protest march: a private cameraman, an award-aiming film-maker, the media, or intelligence gathering machinery?

Connected? The hooked-on-social-media-world inhibits spontaneous conversation

Can we please talk face to face?

Social media resisters are being left out – and then there are CIA and consumerist pitfalls.

A farmer and his son in the Phillipi agricultural zone.

New struggle is for ownership of the city

The post-apartheid experiment has dismally failed the poor’s right to urban redress.