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I have a BA HED (Higher Education Diploma), and a Tesol English 2nd Language Diploma. I have over 22 years’ teaching experience, and over 15 years’ writing experience, as a journalist in Johannesburg. For the past 3 years I have conducted tours of Joburg.

And when I’m not teaching or writing or conducting tours, I'll be taking in the Joburg vibes and events - it may be a book launch, an art exhibition opening, a touch of jazz, a talk on intriguing stuff . . . there's always something happening in this town, where I have lived for the past 36 years.

Come along on the journey with me - let's have fun exploring English and the city!

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Wits Art Museum waits, excitedly

Mar 6, 2012

Wits Art Museum waits, excitedly

Like an excited bride dressed in crisp white waiting for the first organ note to sound before walking down the aisle, the sparkling Wits Art Museum (WAM) is about to be dressed, waiting for its first exhibition in May. With echoes of the inviting ramps that draw one up into the spaces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and to a lesser extent the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto, WAM has several levels of galleries linked by similar ramps and a polite staircase or two, giv

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Apr 28, 2010

Wits scores its art museum

What do you do with 9 000 pieces of art? You build a 5 000m² museum and put them on glorious display, of course. This is exactly what Wits University is doing, in a dream come true for the custodians of this extraordinary art collection. That dream has been in the making since 2005 and is to be called the Wits Art Museum (WAM), previously the Wits Art Galleries. And where better to put it than in the university's cultural precinct on East Campus, at the former University Corn

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Constitutional Court opens for business

Feb 4, 2004

Constitutional Court opens for business

The first sitting of the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court, in its brand-new building in Johannesburg, took place on a rainy February morning amid construction vehicles, muddy puddles and hardhatted workers. The court and the judges' chambers in Braamfontein are in the final stages of completion - large paintings are being positioned on the walls, grey slate floor tiles are being cleaned, and the final security details are being put in place. The new court bui

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