Political Journey: A city that built giants

Places have memory. They are custodians of stories of another time. Johannesburg can lay claim to men like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela and the story of how their extraordinary parallel pathways came to entwine in the mesh of history.Eric Itzkin, deputy director-general of immovable heritage for the City of Johannesburg and the author of Gandhi's Johannesburg, said the city is overdue for a tour that homes in on the political journeys of the pair and how the city's energy, ideas and spiri...