Johannesburg, Africa’s New York

Credits
Year: 2015
Running Time: 30 mins
Production: NZZ Format
Broadcast : SRF 1 / 3 SAT
Director: Cristina Karrer, Patricia Wagner
Camera: Laurent Stoop
Editor: Patricia Wagner
Producer: NZZ Format, Tobias Wolff
With Carolyn Steyn and Brendan Zacharopoulos

No other city in South Africa has changed as much as the megacity of Johannesburg. It has acquired an image of a vibrant global city. How this became a reality is explained by the official from the municipal government who is in charge of the city’s economic development. Fans of Johannesburg use Instagram to record the city’s new-found urban atmosphere. The trendy quarter of Maboneng is a place where clothes are designed and new culinary dishes created. Johannesburg is still a city of contrasts. One of the richest women in South Africa knits blankets for the poorest people in the slums. Other slum dwellers include those who spend their days illegally searching for gold in the abandoned mining galleries – for the remnants of the gold that ultimately formed the basis of the city’s existence.

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