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Nine Yards is not trying to reinvent Rosebank. If anything, it understands exactly what makes the area seductive.
ARCHITECTURE

Nine Yards is reimagining slow living in Joburg

A lush, all-in-one Rosebank precinct where food, art, fashion and green space come together to turn everyday city life into a slow, walkable experience

  • Lesego Chepape
7 min read
Primary risk: The most important part of scaffolding is the planning, engineering drawings, the load calculations and daily inspections. When the discipline slips, the system becomes vulnerable. Picture: Supplied
BUILDING INDUSTRY

Safety vs profit in building sector

Cutting corners while balancing construction pressure and tight deadlines can be fatal

  • Ash Müller
6 min read
Rich history: Golden Acre has always been a place of transition, between train stations and taxis and between work and home. There are plans to redevelop the tower and upgrade the retail component. Photo: Wikipedia
ADAPTIVE REUSE

Golden Acre entering her next era

There is something fitting about the multilevel shopping centre and office block entering another phase of reinvention

  • Ash Müller
6 min read
Expansion needed: Supporters of the sale of the Cape Town International Convention Centre argue that if the City continues to own it, the funding obligation to grow it falls partly on the public purse. Photo: Discott
ASSET MANAGEMENT

Why the City of Cape Town selling its real estate is not as simple as it looks

Selling too much public property now could limit future opportunities for social housing, community facilities or public projects that only the state can deliver

  • Ash Müller
6 min read
Legal township establishment processes exist to ensure that urban development is safe, serviced and sustainable.
AFRIKANER

Behind Kleinfontein and other illegally established residential areas

Kleinfontein is just one of about 17 other illegally established housing developments in Tshwane

  • Sarah Mabotsa
4 min read
Committed: Volunteers scrape the invasive weeds and litter, which have been dragged in by members of the rowing and canoeing clubs, onto Wemmer Pan’s banks. Photos: Madison Bannon
AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT

Restoring Wemmer Pan’s glory

A diverse community of rowing enthusiasts and local residents who volunteer their time is working tirelessly to clean up the historic pan

  • Sheree Bega
  • Madison Bannon
8 min read
Mother City directors Miki Redelinghuys and Pearlie Joubert
ACCOUNTABILITY

Mother City: A powerful documentary exposing Cape Town’s racial and economic inequality

Six years in the making, the pair’s film explores racial and economic inequality in Cape Town

  • Charles Leonard
7 min read