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romans --- Johannesburg --- 870 --- apartheid --- proza --- prose --- Johannesburg.

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Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Geography. --- Politics and government. --- Race relations.

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'Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?' asked Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian Love, Crime and Johannesburg, the story of Jimmy 'Long Legs' Mangane, a people's poet involved in the struggle, who is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the 'secret secret service'. Lewis, his old friend and comrade from the struggle, now owns a bank. How did this happen? The man of the struggle is now a man of accounts. A man of the nineties. Part of the cell phone generation. Added to the mix is an oldstyle gangster, two girlfriends, a Jewish father and a very unusual Chief of Police. Described as one of the first genuine postapartheid plays, Love, Crime and Johannesburg is a witty, lighthearted account of life in the City of Gold at the turn of the millennium. A must for all students of South African theatre. Winner of the 2000 Vita Award for best script of a new South African Play.

Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Johannesburg --- Yohanesburg (South Africa) --- Jo'burg (South Africa)

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Collection of scholarly and creative essays on Johannesburg that focus on the city's modern and cosmopolitan status within Africa and the world.

Sociology, Urban --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Social conditions. --- Civilization.

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Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global south city. Global south cities are often characterised as sites of contradiction and difference that produce a range of feelings around anxiety. This is often imagined in terms of the global north's anxieties about the south: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city. How does it feel to live in the metropolis of Johannesburg: what are the conditions, intersections, affects and experiences that mark the contemporary urban? Scholars, visual artists and storytellers all look at unexamined aspects of Johannesburg life. From peripheral settlements to the inner city to the affluent northern suburbs, from precarious migrants and domestic workers to upwardly mobile young women and fearful elites, Anxious Joburg presents an absorbing engagement with this frustrating, dangerous, seductive city. It offers a rigorous, critical approach to Johannesburg revealing the way in which anxiety is a vital structuring principle of contemporary life. The approach is strongly interdisciplinary, with contributions from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, urban geography, migration studies and psychology. It will appeal to students and teachers, as well as to academic researchers concerned with Johannesburg, South Africa, cities and the global south. The mix of approaches will also draw a non-academic audience.

City and town life --- Johannesburg (South Africa) --- Social conditions. --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Johannesburg --- Yohanesburg (South Africa) --- Jo'burg (South Africa)