
Johannesburg’s Babel Falls
Ingrid Marten’s gives a talk to American journalism students, one of them James Kindle, interviewed her about Ponte. Here is his article: http://cronkitezine.asu.edu/SouthAfrica/oneRoof.html In a city where xenophobic violence turned deadly, Johannesburg’s most iconic skyscraper showed that South Africans and foreigners could live together in peace. But that is all changing. This is a story about a building in South Africa named Ponte, a towering cylinder of concrete, steel a