Ted Botha

New: Hollywood on the Veld. Author of best-selling Daisy de Melker: Hiding Among Killers in the City of Gold; Girl with the Crooked Nose. Ex Reuters/NYTimes.

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@dbbovey @JustinCChang What a review! Now I’m really tempted to see it.

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@CinemaTweets1 THE best.

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@Askash So true: "reminding me once again that Jozi is one of those cities you have to feel to understand." A city that deserves so much attention.

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Amazing how much this story gets wrong. The fact that Killarney was famous first as a globally unprecedented film studio (not studios) gets buried way down. (And thanks for the mention.)

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Killarney rose to become the world’s richest suburb in the 1970s on the back of Johannesburg’s gold-fuelled boom, with it even outpacing Monaco.
https://t.co/gM8N4sleGs

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@askash Do you know what the deal is with that massive Kimberley hole on Cradock opposite The Firs?

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@askash Great read, and thanks for this background. Have passed this property many times wondering what/why/how. Once I also interviewed a member of Joburg Tourism (yes, there was/is such a nonfunctioning entity) whose offices overlooked this wasteland. The rot was there long ago.

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@askash Have you done anything yet on Killarney and it’s jewel, Whitehall Court? There’s quite an active revive Killarney group raising awareness about the little Manhattan.

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@ahistoryinart @TomTommallow And lead, which led to a slew of other demises, often neurological. When I was researching my book on Daisy de Melker, I learnt that countless children died from convulsions, probably caused by paint, though they didn’t know that at the time.

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Best bike shop in NYC? Old-fashioned, good service, terrific prices, friendly. East Harlem, 111 St/Third Ave.

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@dbbovey Did one of those to Ushguli under Mt Shkara, along a precipice with a crazy man at the wheel.

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@ahistoryinart A lot like Odilon Redon.

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@dbbovey I saw this at their bookshop and was envying you greatly!

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@Wise You don’t because @wise makes it so difficult to replace your card.

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@ahistoryinart Reminds me a lot of Robert Delaunay.

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When Johannesburg tried to make its own Hollywood. https://t.co/XVTJj78Giq

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@MikeyCycling In Miami, I found it interesting there are car lanes where bicycles are allowed to take the entire lane, I’m sure to the chagrin of drivers. The city also has an incredible bike-lane network, although bitterly few cyclists, I found.

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When Johannesburg tried to create its own Hollywood - in 1913. The millionaire behind Joburg’s original dream factory #hollywoodontheveld #newbook #nonfiction #schlesinger https://t.co/RMXzAD5kKo

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Autumn in Johannesburg. Read my essay on 48 hours in this great city on FB. #johannesburg #cityofgold #hollywoodontheveld

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When Johannesburg tried to match Hollywood. Spectacle for spectacle. #HollywoodontheVeld https://t.co/e5rju4Lqm5