Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis.

This is often imagined in terms of the global North’s anxieties about the South: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis.

A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.

This is why case numbers and deaths are so high: South Africa has done worse than the rest of Africa not despite the fact that it has a ‘more developed’ health system, but because it does.

A pact is made during Algeria's war for Independence.

In Wake Up, This Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of the city’s ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents.

Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full.

... Johannesburg in Cry , the Beloved Country and most of the stories in Tales from a Troubled Land , especially " Sponono " and " The Death of a Totsi , " are based on this experience . He was recognized as a leading authority in South ...

This is a story of memory, identity and an intensely personal relationship with the City of Gold. It is also the story of a violent home invasion and its aftermath, and of a man's determination to reclaim his home town.

... Johannesburg The richest gold field in the world was discovered in 1884 in a ridge of hills near Johannesburg . In some years more gold has been taken from this field than from all the mines of the United States . Many native Kaffirs ...