Anastasia Beverly Hills - Brow Freeze

Product Information

van Onselen C. Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886–1914: Volume 1 New Babylon. Johannesburg: Ravan Press; 1982. Callinicos L. A People’s History of South Africa: Gold and Workers 1886–1924, vol. 1. Johannesburg: Ravan Press; 1998.

de Waal, Shaun (1 September 1989). "Everyone's chasing the Hillbrow gay vote". Mail & Guardian . Retrieved 1 September 2019. Hillbrow enjoyed two massive growth spurts in the twentieth century. By the 1920s, new technology (elevators and reinforced concrete) meant that it was possible to build a few multi-storey buildings, although height restrictions were enforced and private houses still far outnumbered apartment buildings by the early 1940s. With the removal of height restrictions in 1946, however, Hillbrow entered an intensive phase of construction that lasted until the late 1960s. Over this period the number of apartment buildings increased by 250%, while office space doubled. Hillbrow became a high density, high-rise, inner-city neighbourhood, only one kilometre from the centre of Johannesburg [ 4]. Building construction extended outwards towards the neighbouring suburbs of Berea and Yeoville. However, largely due to the implementation of the Rent Control Act of 1949, which was intended to protect the interests of white working class tenants [ 17], no new building developments occurred after the end of the 1960s.

Hillbrow, Jo’burg’s inner city Tenderloin district, was never a nest of angels…

I had a particular love for a low dive called the Café Florian, which reminded me of similar spots in old Lourenco Marques (now Maputo). Hillbrow Record Centre. Pic courtesy Lost Johannesburg.

Today, the majority of the residents are incoming migrants from the townships, rural areas and the rest of Africa, many living in abject poverty. An urban regeneration programme is underway. There are street markets, mainly used by local residents, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery contains work by major local artists including William Kentridge. Outside, yesterday’s newspaper shuffles down through a narrow side street, gently prodded by the winter wind. It wraps itself around a hobo’s takkie as he huddles in a doorway, so close to death he doesn’t realise it. Bonner P. Desirable or Undesirable Basotho Women. Liquor, Prostitution and the Migration of Basotho Women to the Rand, 1920–1945. In: Walker C, editor. Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945, vol. 1990. Cape Town: James Currey. p. 226–50. Hillbrow was on the ‘cutting edge’ of apartheid’s social, political and geographical demise.” [ 19] To the hoboes and slobs it provides a well-lit forecourt where they can be safe, away from the human beasts who hunt in the small hours of the night.

Will you be claiming the VAT back?

Having sketched a social, political and economic history, what remains to be explored is the impact of the HIV epidemic on the people of Hillbrow and the nature of the public health response it generated. In the public imagination, Hillbrow’s long association with sex work, criminality and foreigners, has provided fertile ground for constructions of the suburb as “emblematic of diseases of the social body, an ambiguous space of potential infection and contamination” [Nuttall and Mbembe cited in [ 34]]. It is therefore appropriate that Hillbrow became the setting for some of the earliest HIV prevention and support centres in the city. There were all manner of restaurants on balconies, where you could sit out under an umbrella in summer, drink beer and watch the crazies down below. Become one yourself, from time to time. Craft everything from effortless, natural-looking brows to dramatically defined brow looks. Choose your preferred formula for achieving the perfect brow fill. Our cult-favourite eyebrow fillers Brow Powder Duo, Perfect Brow Pencil, Brow Definer, DIPBROW® Pomade and DIPBROW® Gel make it easy to apply a seamless brow colour application on brows that have everything from sparse hair to full hair. Pair your favourite products from anastasia beverly hills brows collection with our essential eyebrow brushes Brush 7B, Brush 12 or Brush 14.