A field of dreams — and the quiet making of Johannesburg as ‘education town’
Daily Maverick | 28.01.2026 05:42
Sometime after New Year’s Eve, a video of Hillbrow raced across social media: the streets are empty, screams ricochet through the night, fireworks land like missiles. For many people watching that frantic montage hardened into the whole truth – confirming a familiar idea of the city as a chaotic, dangerous and ungovernable place.
