Johannesburg's infamous Ponte City tower may be Africa’s tallest apartment building but it was also South Africa's symbol of inner-city dilapidation for a long time.
Johannesburg’s infamous Ponte City tower may be Africa’s tallest apartment building but it was also South Africa’s symbol of inner-city dilapidation for a long time.
The gaping open core of the building already lent it an eerie feel, but it became far more terrifying as the fall of apartheid transformed the city centre, dragging the building into becoming a symbol of the violence and decay that gripped parts of Jozi during our country’s messy transition to democracy in the 1990s.
The rubbish situation got so out of hand – with stinking bags thrown right down the centre of the hollow core until the mess stood five floors deep – that stories started doing the rounds of dead bodies being buried there, too:wrote that the core served as a suicide drop, “where the bodies – if you believe some stories – were only pulled out during the eventual cleanup”.
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