Please let us be gentle with each other in 2022
Editor’s Note Let us start at beginning. Welcome to 2022 as this is CITYLIFE/ARTS’ first edition for 2022. We once more promise to give you the reader, the best of arts … Read More
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Musical play Marangrang delves deep into Royal Family succession contest for power
Playwright Bogosi Bolokwe hopes that those who will attend his musical play Marangrang at Soweto Theatre February 4-6, 2022 will better understand what is currently going on within the Zulu … Read More
Decolonising Shakespeare: setting Othello in Ghana and Pericles in Glasgow
Over the last few years, the issue of decolonising the curriculum has become a growing concern for UK universities. This means recognising the legacy of western colonialism and rethinking the way we teach and … Read More
Artists at August House sell art at auction to feed the less privileged
By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor Hunger, poverty and inequality with no doubt is unfortunately a feature of South African life. To some who maybe visiting from elsewhere might be surprised … Read More
Hugh Masekela’s legacy lives on through music
By Citylife Arts Writer World renowned trumpeter Hugh Masekela Maybe dead, but his legacy lives on. Assupol and The Hugh Masekela Heritage Foundation celebrate Bra Hugh’s cultural legacy on the … Read More
New Pan African photographers’ collective launched in Johannesburg
The Newtown based photographers collective Umhlabathi at their premises houses 8 studios for each photographer, a gallery, dark room and an auditorium as well as running international photographers’ residencies and … Read More
Reading late Stratcom strategist Paul Erasmus’ tell all book is like watching a horror movie of a spying project gone wrong
His victims include Bishop Tutu, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Helen Joseph, Frank Chikane and Beyers Naude By Edward Tsumele, CiTYLIFE/ARTS Editor There is no way after reading The Confessions of a Stratcom … Read More