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The precinct’s literary heritage is experiencing a revival with pop-up stores and vendor stalls doing roaring trade

Bridge Books offers tours to a number of booksellers in the Johannesburg CBD. Picture: Supplied

CNA started in a corrugated-iron building on the corner of Rissik and Commissioner streets. Juta started on the corner of Loveday and Pritchard and the Bantu Men’s Social Centre, at 1 Rissik Street, hosted social events, a boxing club, gym and a library founded by Herbert Dhlomo and run by Peter Abrahams.“Mr Thorold used to walk around with a Gladstone bag visiting all the shops and markets when Bree Street taxi rank was the Flat Iron Market.

The Nigerian book sellers are strongest in the market with a ‘Nollywood model’ of mass-produced books by Nigerian preachers with hectic titles such as Satanic Barbers, Identifying Evil Restaurants, Combating Satanic Forces in Your Office and Expelling Witchcraft. The pop-up bookshop is a growing concept in the city, with some hair salons and spaza shops creating solid returns from a single bookshelf. The Rand Club, together with book auctioneer James Findlay, has opened a basement floor for antiquated books, art and maps.

 

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