
It is called the Manhattan of Africa, but downtown Johannesburg looks more like Batman’s Gotham City. Among its soaring, muscular towers and neoclassical façades there is an air of fallenness, of civic pride gone to ruin.
By William MacNamara
Published: July 5 2008 01:07 | Last updated: July 5 2008 01:07

It is called the Manhattan of Africa, but downtown Johannesburg looks more like Batman’s Gotham City. Among its soaring, muscular towers and neoclassical façades there is an air of fallenness, of civic pride gone to ruin.