Surviving Johannesburg, South Africa
Four years ago I moved from Cape Town to Johannesburg to claim my part of this vibrant, energetic, chaotic and dynamic city. Many called me mad. How could I give up waking up to the sea, the mountain and laid back lifestyle?
During my many travels each year, both business and personal, I’ve come across many cities that I could easily call my home. Munich, Lisbon and Bangkok are just three examples. It’s the nomad in me I guess. Yet nothing quite equals Johannesburg. It’s a mad place for lack of a better expression. Where wealth, luxury and success meet poverty, crime and pain. It’s a place that defines the word survival!
A friend shared a promo (shown below) with me for an upcoming documentary called Surviving Joburg. It does a great job of explaining what Johannesburg is really like and I can’t wait to watch the full tell-it-like-it-is movie.
Unhinged: Surviving Joburg - Promo from Loveland Plant Hire on Vimeo.
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hey this video is really quite something. I write to you from Milan ((we have problems too)), I am sitting in smoggy grey with tears in my eyes, feeling the cells of JHb shivering in my veins.
Milan is an opium city, all under wraps and with its own hidden underground water system just like its social categories, while JHB ((when I lived there)) was a coke city, fast, frenetic, everything at once, good bad an ugly underlined by that perfect weather.
Wow - Thanx.
Coral