Braamfontein: Jozi's epicentre of indigenous cool

06 September 2015 - 02:00
By Lwandile Fikeni

Capetonian Lwandile Fikeni finds a spiritual home in 'post-black' Braamies It is 3:10pm on a Wednesday at Daleahs in Braam. The place is full. In Cape Town, I reckon, this would be regarded as loud, but here it is just what it is - it's called being alive. Being in Braamfontein, especially for a writer of my sensibilities, is not unlike stepping inside a big Nike commercial.

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