Johannesburg's inner city is looking to buttonholes to improve its tattered image. 
When city managers commissioned research into the inner-city economy in 1999, they found offices there humming with the sewing machines of an entrepreneurial class. 

Gauteng's R1,7bn expected to revitalise city's ailing inner suburbs 
Johannesburg's struggling central business district (CBD) is set to become one of the biggest benefactors of the Gauteng government's commitment to increase fixed investment.