Downtown, Yeohville, Hillbrow, Market Street, Pritchard Street, these are some of the neighborhoods where you can instantly feel how is living in Joburg.
During the day is a tornado of millions people trying to buy or sell any kind of goods, every single corner has a visual strong impact. In night time everything change, it’s not exagerate to say but it looks like one of those post nuclear war movie, where the metropoli is a spectral desert. Not even a shop open, even the ATM’s diseappers: the shutter goes down and their are not accesible anymore. A measure taken from the banks some years ago, since when they cannot count anymore the number of the terminal blowed up.
Walking through the streets of Joburg, as through the apartments of the 12° floor of the Toronto House in President Street, is like interact with the all city, there is no difference between inside and outside, private life and the social one are western concepts that here are distorted and re-invented as much as they coincide again.