Archive - Dispatches from Gauteng

A dispatch from Outremont

Aug 13, 2020 •

Impunity and evictions in South Africa

Who do you turn to when the government is the one breaking the law?

Aug 9, 2020 •

July 2020

Dispatches from Gauteng when I'm no longer in Gauteng

Jul 30, 2020 •

Our next door neighbour always starts braaing early on Saturday afternoon.

Jul 9, 2020 •

Secretly Canadian

Soccer, advertising, international trade and South Africa's favourite beer

Jul 2, 2020 •

June 2020

Below zero below the Equator

Jun 18, 2020 •

The leaves change but nothing else

How do you write about travel when you can’t go anywhere?

Jun 4, 2020 •

April 2020

Missing where you are

Apr 23, 2020 •

In the shadow of Caesar

Ancient cities in the modern world: part three

Apr 9, 2020 •

Life under lockdown in Johannesburg

A dispatch that's actually from Gauteng

Apr 3, 2020 •

March 2020

When the new city is 500 years old

Ancient cities in the modern world: part two

Mar 26, 2020 •

It's Istanbul not Constantinople

Ancient cities in the modern world: part one

Mar 12, 2020 •

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