IT Corner is a cafe on 7th Street in Melville where you can get coffee and a laptop fixed in the same visit. The kitchen serves Mediterranean dishes and a range of teas — Marrakesh, Moroccan — while the tech side handles screen repairs, dead laptops, and house calls. The internet is fast, which makes it a working spot for creatives, lawyers, and visitors passing through Johannesburg.

Takunda, the IT technician, opens at six-thirty each morning. He reassures customers in what the staff call his 'saint-like voice', then gets to work on phones and computers. The cafe has a relaxed feel, with waiters like Nthombi, who started here years ago and now diffuses tension with conversation. The menu is Halaal, and though there’s no alcohol, they serve organic shishas.

The place works because it does two things at once: feeds you and fixes your tech. A student once left grinning after renting a laptop for the day. The building sits at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street, where the street’s mix of cultures shows in the crowd.