Eric Itzkin is a historian, author, cultural activist and heritage specialist involved in documenting, preserving and promoting historical sites in Johannesburg. Widely regarded by peers as an expert on Johannesburg’s rich and complex history, Itzkin has spent decades preserving, documenting, and shaping the public memory of the city. Over
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Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River
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Moses Tladi, the first black landscape painter in the traditional realist mode, came to Johannesburg in 1920. Employed by Herbert Read as a gardener on this property, then known as Lokshoek, he began painting here. Read showed his work to neighbour Howard Pim, who introduced Tladi to the Polly Street Art Group. In 1931 he became the first Black artist to exhibit at the National Gallery in Cape Town.