Zen Marie, “The Not-so-Quiet Violence of Bricks and Mortar,“ Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
The Drill Hall was the site of the 1956 Treason Trial, a trial in Johannesburg in which 156 people, including Lillian Ngoyi and Nelson Mandela, were arrested in a raid and accused of treason in South Africa in 1956.
Here we refer to our collective years of living and working in the inner city i.e. from 1999 to present to make a distinction from being born and raised in the inner city.
See Tendayi Sithole, ➝.
One of the studios, Slang Audio Records, stayed on at the Drill Hall after Stokvel 2 and continued to serve the music-making community.
The Joint Operations Committee (JOC) was established by the City of Johannesburg to ensure that all events held in Joburg are safe and that the event organisers comply with all by-laws and City regulations.
See Public Hearing, ➝.