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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!

lucilledavie

Jun 20, 2015

Ponte: once a pariah, now a paradise

Ponte, the tallest residential building in Joburg and probably Africa, is full at last, perhaps because it is run a little like a military camp. But this camp is loved by its residents who wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. One resident told me: “It’s nice here, it’s safe and quiet and secure.” He has lived on the 48th floor for five years, and with arms in all directions to express his enthusiasm, he said: “You’ll love it, you should move here.” This marvellous cylindrica

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lucilledavie

Mar 15, 2002

Johannesburg at war in 1922

Throughout history governments have gone to great lengths to obliterate traces of their conquered enemies: they have destroyed religious temples and buildings, killed men and taken their women and children as their own, imposed new languages and cultures on these people. The South African government of 1922 buried their enemy as paupers and then laid out a nursery over these graves, thus concealing them. A number of pauper graves in the Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg h

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lucilledavie

Oct 1, 2001

A love affair with Sophiatown's people

On the first page of his book, Naught for Your Comfort (1956), the late Archbishop Trevor Huddleston recalls his response on being recalled to England after living in Johannesburg for 12 years. "I am in the process of dying," he said. "No one, I think, could call Johannesburg a lovely place," Huddleston wrote. "It is too stark and too uncompromising; too lacking in any softness of light and shade; too overwhelmingly and blatantly the centre of the Witwatersrand, to have much

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Ponte: once a pariah, now a paradise

Johannesburg at war in 1922

A love affair with Sophiatown's people

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