
A secert third thing: exploring the haunting and the haunted of johannesburg
A CITY OF HAUNTED FACES, A PLACE TO WORK, TO LIVE, TO HUSTLE, TO PRAY, TO HOPE AND HOPE AND HOPE. JOHANNESBURG WILL KEEP YOU AROUND AS LONG AS YOU ARE CONTRIBUTING TO IT. BEWARE: IF YOU GROW TIRED, IT MAY JUST CHEW YOU UP AND SPIT YOU OUT. JOBURG IS LIKE THAT. OR PERHAPS, IT WILL CRADLE YOU UNTIL YOU FIND YOUR FOOTING, IT WILL SHOW YOU THE PEOPLE WHO YOU WILL ONE DAY CLING TO AS THE CITY RAGES AROUND YOU. JOHANNESBURG WILL KEEP YOU ALIVE WITH IT’S CONSTANT RENEWAL OF ENERGY, PEOPLE, OPPORTUNITIES AND LOVE. JOBURG IS LIKE THAT. WHICH JOBURG, DEAR READER, DO YOU KNOW? WHICH JOBURG SHOWS ITSELF TO YOU? WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS GREAT TEMPERAMENTAL CHILD OF A CITY? THE EXHIBITION “A SECRET THIRD THING” CURATED BY AZA MBOVANE, MBAKO MOEMISE, MOSA NALELI, ZOLEKA MOTLHASEDI AND DENZO NYATHI WAS ANOTHER NOBLE ATTEMPT AT UNDERSTANDING THIS PLACE SO MANY OF US CALL HOME.









