As a psychologist, I remain intrigued by our visual curiosity: what we notice, what we overlook, and how we interpret visual stimuli contained in photographs. When we assess a photograph, the brain instinctively searches for patterns, symmetry, and colour in an effort to make sense of the visual information before us. Much like an inkblot test
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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
Blue Plaques
Black mineworkers were involved in gold mining in Johannesburg from 1886, but were excluded from the white miners' union for many years. It was only in December 1982 that the National Union of Mineworkers was formed. In 1995 this site became the NUM headquarters.