Some people follow opportunity. Gerald Olitzki created it - in a city most people had already written off.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, as businesses abandoned Johannesburg's CBD and property values collapsed, one man saw something different. Not decline. Potential. For nearly two decades, that vision was loss-making. The buildings were neglected, the sentiment was overwhelmingly negative, and almost no one believed what he believed.

He kept going anyway. In Episode 12 of The Braadcast, Norman Raad sits down with Gerald Olitzki, Founder of Olitzki Property Holdings, to unpack one of the most remarkable urban regeneration stories in South African history. From the transformation of Gandhi Square to the creation of the Main Street and Fox Street precincts, this is a conversation about what it truly means to hold onto a vision lo ...