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02829aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 9157E122664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221117010035 008 220817t20222022sa acf b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1770107940 020 $a 9781770107946 035 $a (OCoLC)1341258583 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c OI@ $d Z@L $d OI@ $d OCLCF $d HUL $d CGU $d IaU $d SILO 043 $a f-sa--- 050 14 $a HN801.J64 $b W55 2022 082 04 $a 307.740968221 $2 23/eng/20220818 100 1 $a Wilhelm-Solomon, Matthew, $e author. 245 14 $a The blinded city : $b ten years in inner-city Johannesburg / $c Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon. 264 1 $a Northlands, Johannesburg : $b Picador Africa, an imprint of Pan Macmillan South Africa, $c [2022] 300 $a xi, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son's murder. And displaced by the city's drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence. The Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents, both South African and foreign national, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites and the court cases around them, which strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city. In February 2010, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the city's Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case, which became known as Blue Moonlight and went to the Constitutional Court, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg."-- $c Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references 650 0 $a Dwellings $z Johannesburg. $z Johannesburg. 650 0 $a City dwellers $z Johannesburg. $z Johannesburg. 650 0 $a Eviction $z Johannesburg. $z Johannesburg. 650 7 $a City dwellers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862131 650 7 $a Dwellings. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00899978 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 0 $a Johannesburg (South Africa) $x Social conditions. 651 7 $a South Africa $z Johannesburg. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206332 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030343.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9157E122664511EDB99D19AA23ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search