Melville

This guide to Melville, a Johannesburg neighborhood, opens with a local's description of a street where people of every background simply sit together, and asks how that came to be under apartheid law. It traces the suburb back to land surveyor Edward Melvill's 1896 survey, through decades as a modest mining suburb, to the students and broadcast staff who filled its cafes from the 1970s onward. You'll also hear about the Iron Age furnaces still standing on the rocky hill above the street.