Nicky Falkof - Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City

THE INNER LIVES OF A GLOBAL SOUTH CITY

EDITED BY NICKY FALKOF AND COBUS VAN STADEN PRELIMS.

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Cover image Mark Lewis, Yeoville Market on Rockey Street

First published 2020

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Naadira Patel

Sisonke Msimang

Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden

Baeletsi Tsatsi

Cobus van Staden

Lebohang Masango

Njogu Morgan

Baeletsi Tsatsi

Derek Hook

Nicky Falkof

Renugan Raidoo

Mingwei Huang

Antonia Steyn

Joel Cabrita and Sabelo Mlangeni

B Camminga

Khangelani Moyo

Aidan Mosselson

Baeletsi Tsatsi

Sarah Nuttall

This book emerges from a project titled Urban Anxieties in the Global South, which has been generously supported by a Friedel Sellschop early career award from the University of the Witwatersrand and a National Research Foundation Thuthuka Early Career Fellowship, both awarded to Nicky Falkof in 20172019. The book itself has been further supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Governing Intimacies project, also based at Wits University. Most of the chapters included here were developed during an August 2017 workshop in Johannesburg, co-hosted by Wits Media Studies and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). Thanks to Roshan Cader at Wits University Press, to Srila Roy at Governing Intimacies, and to Sarah Nuttall and Najibha Deshmukh at WiSER. Thanks also to Anton Kannemeyer for the use of his images, to Eric Worby for advice on ethics, to Mehita Iqani for providing an intellectual sounding board, to Carli Coetzee for valuable conversations about anxiety, to Job Mwaura for his work on the original conference, to Valerie Killian for her administrative support, and to the two anonymous reviewers who read this book before publication, whose generous and insightful comments have made it far better. Cobus and Nicky would like to acknowledge the contributors for their continued willingness and enthusiasm through many rounds of revision, and for offering such powerful chapters to this volume. Special thanks to Baeletsi Tsatsi, Antonia Steyn and Naadira Patel for their creative contributions, and the associated conversations, without which the book would not be what it is. We are enormously grateful to our respective partners, Lebogang Mogashoa and Joe Walsh, for their patience with our unusual interests and their invaluable behind-the-scenes input into this book.

Figure 3.1
Members of a cycling club in late-nineteenth-century Johannesburg pose with their machines. Courtesy of Museum Africa Picture Archives

Figure 3.2
Car ownership according to the racial categories which were employed by the apartheid and transitional governments. Graph constructed by author from data available from Central Statistical Service (1992)

Figure 3.3
Main mode of transport by racial classification. Graph constructed by author from data available in Culwick (2014, 139)

Figure 3.4
A bicycle lane situated near the University of the Witwatersrand. Authors collection

Figures 4.1 and 4.2
N is for Nightmare, Anton Kannemeyer (2007). Courtesy of the artist

Figure 7.1
Razor wire protecting luxury cars and residences. Photograph by the author

Figure 7.2
Boundary walls and razor wire on Chinatown residence. Photograph by the author

Figure 7.3
Bad Boyz makes its mark on Derrick Avenue. Photograph by the author

Figure 7.4
The house from outside the boundary fence, with chairs for security guards and domestic workers. Photograph by the author, edited to remove house number

Figure 7.5
The outdoor kitchen and outbuilding wall viewed from the main house door. Photograph by the author

Figure 7.6
From left to right wall, the back room, toilet and washing sink in the outdoor Chinese-style kitchen. Photograph by the author

Figure 8.1
Bertrams Rd, Troyeville

Figure 8.2
Niobe St, Kensington

Figure 8.3
Miller St, Ellis Park

Figure 8.4
Westminster Mansions, Highlands Rd, Yeoville

Figure 8.5
Hotel Oribi, Commissioner St, Jeppestown

Figure 8.6
Rosebank Mall, Baker St, Rosebank

Figure 8.7
Melville Koppies, Kloof Rd, Melville

Figure 8.8
Majestic Towers, Clarendon Place, Parktown

Figure 9.1
Lungile Mndebele, Sabelo Mlangeni, 2016

Figure 9.2
Sabelo Mlangeni at the Good Friday church service, Bongmusa Dube, 1999. Courtesy of Sabelo Mlangeni

Figure 9.3
KwaMtsali, Bhekumthetho, Nongoma, SabeloMlangeni, 2016

Figure 9.4
Low prices daily, Sabelo Mlangeni, 2006

Figure 9.5
In time, a morning after Umlindelo, Sabelo Mlangeni, 2016

Figure 9.6
USipho Mathunjwa noScara, Sabelo Mlangeni, 2015

Figure 12.1
Map of the inner city, indicating the locations of buildings in which interviews were conducted