🇿🇦Hillbrow Exploration - The Misunderstood Neighborhood✔️

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[TheIrieman]

It's actually a beautifully structured place; just clean the streets and fix broken pavements, what a difference that alone would make

[jabulanithema]

Hillbrow has a potential to be a great city again. If all the hijacked buildings can be reclaimed, renovated or replaced and the municipality fix the water leaks, streets and plant trees. From your video, I don't see the reason why this area was left to decay like this. Thanks to all the owners, NGOs, and the community who strive to make Hillbrow a better place. Thanks David for the video.

[pauly]

I used to live in Kapteijn Street, Hillbrow in the mid-1980s, just around the corner from where you did most of your filming. Loved it there. Frequently I'd go out for a wander around in the evenings to Kotze and Pretoria Streets, to go to the record shops, bookshops, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, etc. Lots of nice places to go. A great atmosphere and clean and well maintained and most importantly safe. Looking at it now in your video and "dropping in" with Google Maps it looks a mess - a very sad shadow of what it once was. Maybe one day it can be turned around into the awesome and fun place that it used to be, and I hope so but it would take an enormous amount of work and determination. Completely agree with what others have said here - it has huge potential

[sibongilezwane]

I like that you are very positive about a lot of things happening in hillbrow.

[LivinginSAtv]

Thank you to everyone involved in the upliftment of Hillbrow. Major respect for all the work developed! Make sure you show some love and see how can you assist the community of Hillbrow!

[ringogerard]

From min. 22.30 ... Leighstate with Saratoga and the diocese, then up Nugget Hill ❤️ the places of my childhood in the 80's . The brigde by the way did not exist back then.

[anitakraayeveld]

Soooo exciting what you are doing! Positivity and action! I had such amazing visit to Hillbrow recently. It was great to see all the upliftment and restoration! Well done to all involved. May the good work just keep spreading. Well done!

[theawkwardobserver]

I used to live there in the 80s and early 90s . If you need a security team to walk there, then that summarizes the whole place . The only solution for that slum would be to evacuate it, bulldoze it and rebuild . What a shame and disgrace, it used to be such a cool place .

[TheIrieman]

David sounds to me like you should be on the management team 😁

[barnsnkwanyana]

I stayed in quite a number of buildings in hillbrow fond memories of my youth and good times.i grew up there for me pretoria street was best street then there were casino, s, clubs,disco,s, parades, soccer stars and musician use to stay there cause Hillbrow use to operate 24 hours non stop entertainment

[gabrielmafereka]

Ponte City apartments, Johannesburg.
Movies parts filmed at this location
1997 Dangerous Ground
2009 District 9 movie.
2014 SEAL Team 8.
2015 Chappie.
2016 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, just to name a few.

[blackdynastyrsa]

You never cease to amaze me David... 😂😂😂😂

Hillbrow has huge potential though

[ringogerard]

Old Synagogue Corner Smit. Str. and Claim Str. But abandoned by the local jewish community long ago. There is another one up Claim Str. Corner Paul Nel. That one is still being used.

[MusehanaH]

If they can turn Hilbrow around, they can do anything and Joburg will soon be on the absolute path to redemption

[MagusAdler]

I used to stay in the block of flats that you showed, 75 quartz street sunnycrest. That was 1988 to 1992. I once went to listen to mother Theresa when she spoke at the catholic church in Nugget street

[peterbotha]

I used to own a snooker club in kotze str.opposite highpoint from 1989 TO 1994.Hardly recognise the place now.

[lawrencenannes]

30 yrs ago I spent some time in hillbrow it was much more upmarket than this dilapidated state now!!!

[myrtosgang]

Stayed in Hoffman New York 1981 was much cleaner then not all that dirt lying in the streets

[benediktmorak]

Als ich in Joburg ankam war es erst das Honeydew Motel, wo wir alle die mit der TRANSA hergekommen sind einquartiert wurden.
Und dann für eine paar Monate die Bergerac Apartments.
Aber dann Windsor Park. Und zur Arbeit konnte ich zu Fuß gehen!!!!

[cuedabeat]

This is awesome 👏🏽 Joburg raised Me, It'll be nice if you can cover hillbrow more, cause all those buildings have stories as why they got hijacked... I love those church infrastructures.