The ghost hunters arrived soon after a most unusual calamity. The waiters, like discombobulated birds signalling an imminent earthquake, had scurried through the Saturday night bar crowd from the ...

The Troyeville Hotel is a Joburg original! First licensed in 1939, it’s one of the city’s oldest hotels on the eastern edge of the Joburg CBD. And the views of the skyline are superb! The area has ...

Joburg East rises and falls in slopes and valleys, its geography mirrors its nadirs of falling into neglect and deepening slum but also high points of opportunity turned to plan, a will to survive and ...

I felt that I knew the Troyeville Hotel before I ever set foot in it: a friend, a talented artist who died young wrapping his car around a tree, used to try to get me to join him for Sunday fish ...

Two homegrown enterprises and a French import have brought fresh life to the Johannesburg suburb of Troyeville. If you aren’t a local it’s well worth crossing the northern suburbs curtain to try them.

Co-owner and restaurateur, Laurence Jones recalls that he convinced a group of friends to buy the hotel with him 11 years ago because, when he heard it was on the market, he was particularly concerned ...

Situated to the east of Johannesburg’s Central Business District, The Troyeville Hotel is more than just a small bespoke hotel, with a restaurant, coffee shop and renowned. Roof-top Bar offering live ...

Square metre for square metre, a little suburb in Joburg comes up trumps with its number of churches. Troyeville is watched over by a park of life-sized angels. This is artist Winston Luthuli’s ...

A 20m tower made from more that 7 000 recycled plastic bottles on a redundant communications tower beams messages of hope and trust over Troyeville‚ Johannesburg. It is estimated that in South Africa‚ ...