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THE BLINDED CITY IBD

MATTHEW WILHELM SOLOMON
PICADOR AFRICA
07 / 2022
9781770107946
Anglès

Sinopsi

âÇÖOne of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.âÇÖ - NIREN TOLSIAmid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her sonâÇÖs murder. And displaced by the cityâÇÖs drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence.The Blinded Cityárecounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents, both South African and foreign national, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites and the court cases around them, which strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city.In February 2010, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the cityâÇÖs Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case, which became known asáBlue Moonlightáand went to the Constitutional Court, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg.The Blinded Cityáchronicles this case, among others, and the aftermath - a tumultuous period in the city characterised by recurrent dispossessions, police and immigration operations, outbursts of xenophobic violence, and political and legal change. All through the decade, there is the backdrop of successive mayors and their attempts to âÇÖclean upâÇÖ the city, and the struggles of residents and urban housing activists for homes and a better life. The interwoven narratives present a compelling mosaic of life in post-apartheid Johannesburg, one of the globeâÇÖs most infamous and vital cities.

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