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While most tourists slip through Johannesburg seeing little more than the airport, those who want to understand the darker days in South Africa's not-so-distant past should visit Constitution Hill. Until 1983 this was home to the[an error occurred while processing this directive] Old Fort Prison, where thousands of political prisoners once awaited trial. Today it has been partially preserved as a museum, but the old Awaiting Trial Block has been demolished, and in its place is the new Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land. It's the end result of a competition to "create...
...gymnasium. It's the second annual Soweto Wine and Brandy Festival, designed to encourage the nation's black middle class to embrace wine. Such consumers splurge on luxury cars, clothes and homes, but stick with traditional beer and spirits. "There are at least 10 wine festivals per year in Johannesburg, and you can count on one hand the number of people of color who attend them," says Marilyn Cooper, who runs the local branch of the Cape Wine Academy and is one of the festival's organizers. "We have got to get our black population drinking wine." Talk to some...
Consider the scene in Boikarabelo, South Africa. It's 10 o'clock in the morning in this village outside Johannesburg, home to some 300 children, many of whom have lost their parents to AIDS. Time for recess is approaching. After hours of morning instruction, the children are ready to burst forth into the schoolyard--eager to run, jump and take a spin on the merry-go-round...
...quite beautiful at that time of day. A trip to Wandie's bar, pictured, in Soweto may be a bit of a clich?, but it's still a must to sample township life. And then I'd end my night at the Horror Caf? in downtown Johannesburg, where some of the best undiscovered musicians play local hip-hop, ragga and soul. It's a young, mixed crowd?very cool...
...trip to Wandie's bar in Soweto[an error occurred while processing this directive] may be a bit of a cliché, but it's still a must to sample township life. And then I'd end my night at the Horror Café in downtown Johannesburg, where some of the best undiscovered musicians play local hip-hop, ragga and soul. It's a young, mixed crowd - very cool. Palesa Madumo, advertising executive First hit the Design Quarter, Jo'burg's newest and hippest shopping mall at Fourways in the north. You can eat or have a drink...