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Rosebank

Rosebank, Johannesburg, 2196

Leafy commercial district of galleries, malls and a rooftop craft market once segregated under apartheid law.

This guide to Rosebank in Johannesburg opens on a Friday night in 1966, with teenagers in jackets and dresses gathering on a verandah and shoppers sending their groceries off on a hidden conveyor belt, in a suburb declared for whites only under apartheid's Group Areas Act. You'll hear one resident's own uncomfortable memory of those years, and how galleries and businesses moving north after apartheid reshaped these same streets. It traces the neighbourhood from that closed, buttoned-up evening to the rooftop market that now fills every Sunday.

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