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Monday, March 16, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 TRAVEL COMMUNITY Africa’s ‘most dangerous’ tower block now a top tourist attraction Once plagued by poverty and crime, Johannesburg’s Ponte Tower has now become a hip place to visit. While South Africans tend to avoid the block, travellers from abroad are drawn to its views across the city and its tale of transformation, writes Ralf E Kruege a maximum of 3,500, suddenly became home to 10,000 people, who rented spots in the abandoned fl ats from slum landlords. But the 2010 football World Cup changed the tower’s fate, transforming it suddenly into a symbol of hope. The building was revitalised partly in preparation for the football tournament. The rubbish was removed, the apartments were renovated and security was dramatically improved. Now, security gates with fi nger- print technology mean accessing the interior of the cylindrical building is like entering a fortress. Eff orts are still being made to improve life in and around the tower. The charity Dlala Nje, founded by journalist Nicholas Bauer, has had an offi ce in the tower for several years and is trying to change its negative image as well as opening up opportunities for inner-city youths. It also organises tours of Ponte Tower. “We’ve now had more than 20,000 visitors,” says Bauer, whose family emigrated to South Africa from Austria. The charity came up with the idea for tours of the tower after seeing people fi lming there. Several movies, television shows and music videos have used the iconic building as a backdrop and it has also been the subject of a documentary. PICTURESQUE: Tourists can enjoy a view above Johannesburg from the 52nd storey of the Ponte Tower. Although the charity does little to advertise its tours, they are very popular. Most visitors come from rime-ridden, chaotic and to the suburb of Sandton, where at abroad. squalid: for a long time, the end of last year the 234-metre “There are lots of young people Johannesburg’s Ponte tall Leonardo Tower became Africa’s but pensioners too,” says Bauer with Tower was regarded tallest residential building. a sigh. “Prince Harry and Meghan as a kind of gangster’s The skyscraper is almost the wanted to come on their trip to Cparadise, the most dangerous tower opposite of Ponte Tower: when South Africa but their South African block in Africa. apartheid ended, Johannesburg’s security was too sceptical.” In his 2003 novel Ponte City, fi nancial industry moved its offi ces “We found out about the tour German author Norman Ohler even to Sandton. in our guidebook,” says Damien imagined the Nigerian mafi a moving Meanwhile the 173-metre- Regnier, a French tourist ending his into the skyscraper. high Ponte Tower, completed in fi rst trip to South Africa with a tour The tower has since been 1975, has become a symbol of the of the tower. completely renovated and has now country’s varied history, standing Shortly before he and his partner become a top tourist attraction, like a lighthouse in the rough Laetitia Oodoomansaib were due visited by the likes of German neighbourhood of Hillbrow. to take off , the pair were enjoying President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, The 54-storey Ponte block, with the view over to Sandton and its who enjoyed the view across the its swimming pools, restaurants and shopping malls, now regarded as the city from the top of the building’s boutiques, was initially home to the most expensive area in Africa. rooftop. “Almost 95 percent of city’s white elite but soon became a Ponte Tower and the once visitors are tourists, many of them vertical slum. In the building’s open rundown neighbourhood of from Germany, France and the air courtyard, rubbish and debris Maboneng now market themselves United States,” says Gilbert Mwape, was piled several storeys high at one as a hipper alternative to Sandton, a Congolese-born tour guide. stage. and the tower is particularly popular South Africans themselves are Ruthless gangsters ran the block, at weekends. rarely among the visitors, he says. selling anything from sex and drugs “There’s a lot of demand from “We’re still working on some to guns. The crime rate soared. businesses which want to welcome prejudices.” OPTICAL ILLUSION: A glance into the interior of the Ponte Tower can After the fall of apartheid, in the weekend with a sundowner,” From the 52nd fl oor, views stretch quickly made visitors become dizzy. the building, designed to house says Mwape. – DPA 4 GULF TIMES Monday, March 16, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Forced by circumstance, but still may be ideal Tech firms will benefit, but some companies could find employees don’t want to return to the off ice, writes Alex Hern Overall, working from home doesn’t change your day-to-day work, it just means you’ll be doing it from a different ‘ environment — Jennifer Christie, Twitter’s head of HR BANDWIDTH: Internet service providers have come under pressure to lift bandwidth caps so remote workers don’t get cut off from their employers. Tools for remote working Slack person chat they had in the off ice. jobs — perfect for day four or five participants in a single meeting, you work well at home is making Slack, the über workplace of working from home, when you though it’s unclear whether that’s sure you take breaks from work management tool, is loved and Trello might start to wonder if your boss actually a positive. The company at home. The Pomodoro method, loathed in equal measure, but Where Slack recreates the feeling has forgotten you exist. has had some controversies, a well-known approach to focus one thing it has going for it is its of turning to a colleague for a however, from an insecure plugin management that lets you break the free-to-play business model: rather quick chat that’s as much personal Zoom for Mac clients that was fixed in day into 20-minute chunks with five- than needing to sign up the entire as professional, Trello is more like Videoconferencing tools are 10 a June to a questionable “attention minute rests, is one such approach. organisation at once, it is easy for your boss walking over to “just penny, but Zoom has impressed tracking” feature that allows Tomates, a simple and cheap Mac individual teams, desks and off ices check on how you’re doing”. The many by ironing out the kinks in horrible bosses to use AI to check app, helps you to automate those to get started with the free tier, and project management software an often-frustrating process. The whether their employees are timers — although any’ similar app expand as they see fit.