• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago
    CW: Criminal activity, drugs, sexual violence

    Yeah it's that one. It got pretty bad. There was a large trash pile in the middle a few stories high. Sex trafficking, drugs, criminal gangs, etc occupied most of the building during the early to mid 2000s. If you wanted to solicit a prostitute or get hard drugs like cocaine, tik, heroin, etc that was the place to go. But then the tower fell under new ownership and the criminal and gang activity was kicked out after a few years of legal battles, police corruption, raids etc, and the building cleaned up. The new ownership invested a ton of money into the building. After years of work it's as good as a dystopian looking apartment complex in the middle of Johannesburg can get. Now a local radio presenter even owns an apartment there.