South Africa Guide
Gauteng
Central Suburbs
Grouped around the CBD are various suburbs which, given Johannesburg's itinerant population ad fast-changing demography, seem to be in a state of constant change. Some, particularly Hillbrow, Berea and Yeoville, were once the "grey areas" of Johannesburg, where apartheid first started to break down in the 1980s. The police turned a blind eye as large numbers of blacks started moving from the townships into these previoulsy all-white areas.