S`KOP (WAKE UP, THIS IS JOHANNESBURG ) - LIMITED EDITION ( FIRST IN A SERIES OF TEN)

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, S'KOP, WAKE UP THIS IS JOHANNESBURG, Book 1/10, a ten book series about Johannesburg, Mark Lewis and Tanya Zack, isiZulu translation by Manqoba Victor Ndlovu, Fourthwall Books, 2014, softcover, illustrated, 28 pages, 19.5 cms x 25.5 cms, condition : as new.

It is 2014 and in the ex- Harrison Street Municipal Parking garage, a  condemned building,  city butchers hack cow heads, or S'kop in isiZulu,  for R10.  This is the making of Tanya Zack and Mark Lewiss photo-book Skop the first in the Wake Up, This is Joburg series. 

Writer and urban planner Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis present a startling story of entrepreneurship and survival in the city. Their text and images take us to uitvalgrond and to a condemned building, where a thriving commercial network has its start before branching out to various corners of Johannesburg. The butchers and traders and entrepreneurs who have made this business uniquely theirs, speak of the hardships of their work in the meat trade and the occasional rewards of making it on their own. Its a story not just about an interesting and tough line of work, but about business connections and how to get things done, how to operate below the radar and, against fairly tough odds, how to make things work.

                                                                                                 Now long out of print and exceedingly rare.