The young girl was arrested while walking from the shops and kept in jail at Hillbrow police station until her father arrived with her birth certificate to prove she was South African.
When I was last in Jozi, I asked the Uber driver who picked me up at the airport about Hillbrow and he just shook his head and said, “no, we don’t go there.”
A gang of men in Hillbrow have become notorious for their brazen daylight attacks. The latest video doing the rounds shows just how openly they operate.
Of the 20 photographs nominated for an international architecture photography award, two are from South Africa. Jozi and Ceres, take a bow.
Hillbrow is not a place for the faint hearted – just watch this video of literal day-light robbery and you’ll understand.
The streets of Hillbrow ain’t exactly where you want to be delivering your baby, although thankfully help was at hand when this woman went into labour.
Dozens of men were protesting in Hillbrow, Johannesburg this morning – chanting slogans such as “say no to men abuse.” They claim that they are doing this in a bid to seek protection from their abusive wives, who beat them at home on regular occasions.