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| • | Hillbrow is the inner city residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is known for its high levels of population density, unemployment and poverty. In the 1970s it was an Apartheid-designated 'whites only' area but gradually became a cosmopolitan area of mixed races. Many whites left Hillbrow and the central business district after poorly controlled and restriced political uprisings and demonstrations in the late days of Apartheid, taking along with them their wealth and places of employment - accelerating the pace of urban decay . Now it is overwhelmingly populated by black migrants from the townships, rural areas and the rest of Africa. It is a common conception of many South Africans that there are many illegal immigrants from Northern and Western Africa living there.
In 2000, Michael Hammon and Jacqueline Görgen directed a documentary named Hillbrow Kids, depicting the struggles of a group of street children in post-apartheid urban South Africa. The 2001 novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow by Phaswane Mpe dealt with life in the district in the years after apartheid, the novel dealt with a large number of issues, most notably poverty, HIV/AIDS, and xenophobia.
Source: [wikipedia: hillbrow, gauteng]
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