Photo essay: Sewersheds: What can wastewater tell us about community health?
GCRO’s September output is a photo essay where we explore how wastewater is treated, and how we can use wastewater to tell us about community health.
Date of publication:
September 2023
Linked to project(s):
Sewersheds: Wastewater surveillance for disease monitoring
Video: What is the GCR?
The GCR is South Africa's economic heartland. It holds 14.7million people and generates a third of the country's GDP, on 2% of its land area. The Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) builds the data and analysis to help inform development in this region. This short video provides a brief introduction into the Gauteng City-Region and the GCRO.
Date of publication:
August 2018
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Linked to project(s):
Advancing data visualisation (2021)
Video: Green Infrastructure in the Gauteng City-Region
As the population, economy and urban built environment in the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) expand, government is increasingly under pressure to provide urban infrastructure to support growth. It is more and more important that this infrastructure is sustainable to minimise the negative environmental impacts often associated with traditional forms of urban development. Green Infrastructure (GI) can achieve this.
Date of publication:
March 2017
Video: Perspectives on Race & Racism: A view from the street
As part of ongoing research into race dynamics in the Gauteng City-Region, the GCRO interviewed a number of young people on the streets of Braamfontein. Each interviewee was photographed and their response to questions of race was recorded. These interviews were collated into this video, which powerfully represents the diversity and complexity of race perspectives among Gauteng's youth.
Date of publication:
July 2016
Linked to project(s):
Anti-racism in the GCR (2017)
Photo essay: Scavenger economies of the mine dumps
“I work here and whatever I make is for my house back home. I will never stay here – I am here for work alone. Life is hard. But you must never suffer as long as you still have your hands; that’s what my father taught me. He taught me you must work hard to have your own things” – Tofara*, a Zimbabwean national who works on the mine dumps."
Date of publication:
May 2014
