She also began performing as a solo cabaret artist, at Garbo's in Cape Town and at Club 58 in Hillbrow.
In January 2013, Al Jazeera English aired a Witness documentary about Hillbrow described as "A personal journey to Hillbrow, where human spirit, hope and enterprise triumph in this crime-ridden melting pot in the heart of South Africa."
Others are functional, such as street furniture in Hillbrow and the City Centre.
Kunene becomes a Robin Hood figure, gaining the title "The Hoodlum of Hillbrow".
Perhaps most notably the Hillbrow Tower in Johannesburg was officially named the J.G. Strijdom Tower until 1995 shortly after the conclusion of apartheid when it was renamed the Telkom Hillbrow Tower.
Many businesses and people fled the Central Business District and surrounding areas such as Braamfontein, Hillbrow, and Yeoville for more secured houses or offices in the Northern Suburbs.