The blinded city : ten years in inner-city Johannesburg /

The blinded city : ten years in inner-city Johannesburg /

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Author / Creator:	Wilhelm-Solomon, Matthew, author.
Imprint:	Northlands, Johannesburg : Picador Africa, an imprint of Pan Macmillan South Africa, [2022] ©2022
Description:	xi, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Dwellings -- South Africa -- Johannesburg. City dwellers -- South Africa -- Johannesburg. Eviction -- South Africa -- Johannesburg. City dwellers. Dwellings. Social conditions. Johannesburg (South Africa) -- Social conditions. South Africa -- Johannesburg.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12752950

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ISBN:	9781770107946 1770107940
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references
Summary:	"Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son's murder. And displaced by the city's drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence. The Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents, both South African and foreign national, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites and the court cases around them, which strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city. In February 2010, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the city's Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case, which became known as Blue Moonlight and went to the Constitutional Court, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg."--

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