Hillbrow

• Innercity residential neighbourhood of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa
• Known for its hight levels of population density, unemployement, poverty and crime
• The Hillbrow Tower, a telecommunication tower, dominates the Johannesburg city skyline, feature in many picture postcard views of the city. It once featured a luxury rotating restaurant, but that was closed in 1981 due to security fears and is unlikely to be reopened.
• In 2009, the famouw BBC 2 reporter Louis Theroux ran a documentary called “Law and Disorder in Johannesburg”. The documentary depicted the stat of complete abandon and lowlessness in some parts of the city, specifically on Hillbrow