Tag: Ferreira’s Camp

• This is Joburg interview

  

  My friend and journalist Charles Leonard interviewed me a few weeks ago for his new podcast ‘This is Joburg’.

  Marc Latilla

  May 16, 2023

  Johannesburg

  Charles Leonard, Early Johannesburg, Ferreira’s Camp, Ferreira’s Dorp, Ferreira’s Town, Ignatius Ferreira, Johannesburg Then and Now, Podcast, This is Joburg

• History of Ferreira’s Dorp (or Ferreira’s Town)

  

  Ferreira’s Dorp or Ferreira’s Town (or both one-word variations) is an area in the south-western part of the originally laid out township of Johannesburg. It borders Marshalltown, Newtown, and Westgate. It predates the birth of Johannesburg by several months and holds the early history of Africans, Chinese, Jewish, and Indian communities in the mining town…

  Marc Latilla

  September 24, 2020

  Johannesburg

  African History, Anglo American, Beth Hamadrash Fox Street, Cantonese Club, Chinese History, Commissioner Street, Ebeneezeer Church, Ferreira’s Camp, Ferreira’s Dorp, Ferreira’s Town, Forty Five Main Street, Forty Four Main Street, Fox Street, Ignatius Ferreira, Indian History, Jewish history, John Vorster Square, Magistrates Court, Ponovez Synagogue, Reunert and Lenz, St. Albans Mission church, Wesleyan Church, West Anderson Building

• Early sweeping views

  

  I’ve read that Johannesburg has been rebuilt three times. Initially it was a haphazard town akin to the wild west with lots of tents, tin structures and bars (and some clay huts-these prohibited after 1891 building regulations) With early deeper m…

  Marc Latilla

  February 13, 2011

  Johannesburg

  Braamfontein, Bree Street Kink, Doornfontein, Early Johannesburg, Eloff Street, Ferreira’s Camp, Hillbrow, Hospital Hill, Jeppe Street, Jeppestown, Map, Market Street, Natal Camp, Paarl Camp, Palace Buildings, Randjeslaagte, Rissik Street, Yeoville