I came across these two photos on Facebook and was thinking OMG, jo'burg has really gone down since I was there. I grew up in J'burg but now live in the English Lake District. I know things were bad for a while but I thought it was getting better. if these photos are anything to go by J'burg has become a dirty slum. When I was a teenager we used to go to the nightclub in this photo but look at it now. Do you have any photos of j.burg now good or bad.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30757094&id=1026955402&op=1&view=all&subj=91882114048&aid=-1&oid=91882114048#/photo.php?pid=30757095&id=1026955402&op=1&view=all&subj=91882114048&aid=-1&oid=91882114048
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo.php?pid=2504437&op=3&o=all&view=all&subj=91882114048&aid=-1&oid=91882114048&id=661857754

If you go through our photo forum you will see a more realistic portrail of the city.

Drew, you may as well put this in the Joburg discussion thread. if you like.:)

Drew, take a look at all the developments, the Gautrain, the inner city renewal, and all the photos of upgrades, the BRT etc.

Joburg is improving all the time. There are still run down areas, and some areas have gone backwards, but mostly its COOKING!

:doh: that doos has a facebook group too!

:doh: that doos has a facebook group too!

yes that's where i saw the photos - sorry I don't seem to be able to upload them here. I'm glad to see that it's not the whole of jo'burg that is bad, the way the facebook group goes on its as if the whole city has gone down with no mention of inner city renewal.

Typical (...) People!

heres a group on facebook made by our very on Joburg from SCC, be sure to join and see the real pictures of the city ;)

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80246398868&ref=mf

:doh: that doos has a facebook group too!

Don't call him a doos.... a DOOS at least still is good for something.

Don't call him a doos.... a DOOS at least still is good for something.

ya for carrying my beers in, would call him a poes but then again thats also lekker

^^LMAO

Yaah--- joe mar su poos...Haven't heard that in an age!!! Great SA BOY!

Yaah--- joe mar su poos...Haven't heard that in an ages!!! Great SA BOY!

watched Jeruslama yesterday and one oke says to a cop yo ma se poes and the subtitles says go to hell., I cracked at that one

rofl, just imagine some tourists who've watched that movie go to CT next year & encounter a local at Hout Bay who was annoying them & they use that one.

watched Jeruslama yesterday and one oke says to a cop yo ma se poes and the subtitles says go to hell., I cracked at that one

What a coincidence I also watched it yesterday morning. Cool story, Think it demonstrates well what happened to the Hillbrow after the end of Apartheid. It's good to see that they have made many improvements in the Hillbrow. Now they just have to open up the Hillbrow tower to the public, and make something of the Ponte

What a coincidence I also watched it yesterday morning. Cool story, Think it demonstrates well what happened to the Hillbrow after the end of Apartheid. It's good to see that they have made many improvements in the Hillbrow. Now they just have to open up the Hillbrow tower to the public, and make something of the Ponte

^^i concur

Joburg has always been a city in flux - constantly changing, constantly reinventing itself. It's wild and crazy, and certainly not boring. The change isn't always comfortable, but it keeps the city buzzing and attracts as many people as it manages to scare away. It's certainly not an easy city to understand, there is no black and white, and is really one big mash of spaghetti Bolognese. That's why I love (and sometimes hate) it, and I don't think I would like to have it any other way.

That's what's happen(ing) to Joburg. The Death of Joburg - aside from being racist, bigoted and victimised - just doesn't understand Joburg, and is simply one big rotten banana.