ENTERPRISING VISION: How Hector Dibakoane is reshaping Joburg’s Makers Valley into a creative powerhouse
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ENTERPRISING VISION How Hector Dibakoane is reshaping Joburg’s Makers Valley into a creative powerhouse Hector Dibakoane’s Makers Valley Partnership is driving opportunities for artisans, artists, urban farmers and many others in a thriving central-Joburg grassroots economy. This “network of possibility” as he calls it, includes the feisty historic suburbs of Bertrams, Bezuidenhout Valley, Judith’s Paarl, Troyeville, Lorentzville and New Doornfontein, east of the Jozi CBD. Hector Dibakoane. (Photo: Bridget Hilton-Barber) We meet up at Victoria Yards in Lorentzville, where many makers have their studios, shops and galleries.
- ▪ENTERPRISING VISION How Hector Dibakoane is reshaping Joburg’s Makers Valley into a creative powerhouse Hector Dibakoane’s Makers Valley Partnership is driving opportunities for artisans, artists, urban farmers and many others in a thriving
- ▪This “network of possibility” as he calls it, includes the feisty historic suburbs of Bertrams, Bezuidenhout Valley, Judith’s Paarl, Troyeville, Lorentzville and New Doornfontein, east of the Jozi CBD.
- ▪Hector Dibakoane. (Photo: Bridget Hilton-Barber) We meet up at Victoria Yards in Lorentzville, where many makers have their studios, shops and galleries.
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ENTERPRISING VISION How Hector Dibakoane is reshaping Joburg’s Makers Valley into a creative powerhouse Hector Dibakoane’s Makers Valley Partnership is driving opportunities for artisans, artists, urban farmers and many others in a thriving central-Joburg grassroots economy. By Bridget Hilton-Barber 24 Jul 2026 Rastas Zebe and Innocent help out with artworks for the Walk the Talk event in Makers Valley. (Photo: Bridget Hilton-Barber) Dive Deeper Speed Read Summary Listen Dive Deeper “Makers Valley is a grassroots hub of creativity and social enterprise that goes across a physical geographic neighbourhood,” says Hector Dibakoane, CEO of the Makers Valley Partnership (MVP).
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