Inside Johannesburg's Infamous Ponte City Tower
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The history of Johannesburg's Ponte City Apartments is a provocative one: built in and designed by Manfred Hermer as the height of luxurious (white-only) living in South Africa, the continent's tallest residential building soon became a notorious vertical slum, filled with crime and poverty, its signature hollow core re-purposed as a trash dump and a suicide drop.
Since , however, the building has been the centerpiece of a drive to regenerate the wider Hillbrow neighborhood. The building is gentrifying once again - an almost color-coded gentrification as white people move back into the tower, mostly taking the more expensive upper apartments. However, as the video by Vocative shows, in the case of Ponte, gentrification is not as simple as elsewhere: heavy security eases the fears of middle class residents in what is still one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Johannesburg. As the video shows, there's a palpable excitement that, finally, the building is becoming a truly multi-ethnic community.
HERMER, Manfred
(additional image below)
Birth: March 23, in Volkrust, Transvaal, South Africa
Death: January 20, in Victoria, B.C.
Plot: South Zone -Plot 53
Inscription:
HERMER
In loving memory of
Lesley
לאה בת בצלאל ורות
beloved wife, mother
and grandmother
who passed away on
August 19,
aged 83 years
hamba kahle
Manfred
מרדכי בן יחזקאל ושרה פריידא
beloved husband, father
grandfather and
great-grandfather
who passed away on
January 20,
aged 95 years
gey b’shulam
ת׳נ׳צ׳ב׳ה
Translation of inscription:
Hermer
In loving memory of
Lesley
לאה בת בצלאל ורות
(Hebrew: Leah bat Betzalel and Ruth)
beloved wife, mother
and grandmother
who passed away on
August 19,
aged 83 years
hamba kahle
(Zulu: Goodbye or go well)
Manfred
מרדכי בן יחזקאל ושרה פריידא
(Hebrew: Mordechai ben Yechezkel and Sarah Freyda)
beloved husband, father
grandfather and
great-grandfather
who passed away on
January 20,
aged 95 years
gey b’shulam
(possibly a transliteration of Yiddish: Go in peace)
ת׳נ׳צ׳ב׳ה
(Abbreviation of Hebrew: “May their souls be bound with the bond of life.”)
Biography:
Manfred was an architect in Johannesburg from Later he became a leading
Hermer, Manfred
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