Times and Spaces

Johannesburg is, as political scientist Achille Mbembe emphasized, „the premier African Metropolis“. This goes along with the ability to disrupt realities and to generate own forms of cultural and social coexistence. In other words: Johannesburg is growing along unknown pathways that haven’t been walked on before. It is the interplay between people, ideas and images that constitutes the city itself. It is the way in which people generate new forms of social organization, of political struggle, of practices of everyday life, of housing, urban transportation and earning money that makes a metropolis unique.

In a five-day workshop in September 2017, 17 journalists from the South of Africa researched current topics of Johannesburg urban development. The meeting was organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation South Africa and its German partner, the non-profit media agency JournAfrica!.

As a result we present the multimedia documentation „Times and Spaces“. The stories written on the site were created during the workshop.