#gautrain — Public Fediverse posts

「“Landed in #Joburg. The #Gautrain had just started. Jumped onto the Gautrain, whizzed through into #Sandton. World class. And then I walked across the road into the hotel and it was a Sunday afternoon and there was a pool party going on. Obviously no beaches, no mountains, no vineyards.
“There was a beautifully integrated crowd, not something we were always used to in the Cape. And I spent the afternoon talking to a young black architect by the name of Benedict, and it was just such a good energy. I didn’t even go for the interview, I just phoned the guy, Herman, and I said, ‘I’m in. I want to be in this city’.”

Higgs found, in his instant new home, “a vibrant city, an integrated city. It was the energy of the city. Talking to someone later on, I said, ‘I love the energy of the city’ and they said, ‘You must understand that Joburg exists because of the Gold Rush, and hasn’t really changed; there’s massive opportunity here, everything moves at 100 km an hour, there’s no real off time, there’s no real off season.’

“It’s not like #CapeTown where it ebbs and flows and so forth. And I feel that. I love this city and have made it my home, more than Cape Town has ever been.”
The Joburg that Higgs fell in love with is a melting pot of #Africa.

“How it relates to other cities, the Singapores, the Londons and the New Yorks, is that Joburg is a melting pot of African countries, west, east and southern Africa, and with that comes an incredible vibrancy: #art, #music, #food, #fashion.”」

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024-04-05-how-joburg-stole-the-heart-of-a-top-cape-chef/

#Johannesburg #SouthAfrica