CityLife Arts is a specialist arts publication that focuses on visual art, theatre and literature.
Facilitated by poet and anthropologist Lebohang Masango, the divergent views on the issue of Coloured identity between the two academics during this conversation that was well attended by a cosmopolitan … Read More
Yet there is another event, less known publicly, but its aftermath in the 1980s, had a huge impact on the course of the struggle for freedom. You may not have … Read More
By CityLife Arts Writer Twelve-year-old Patrick Newberry lives for gaming. That becomes a serious problem when he develops a sudden, peculiar allergy to electricity. Every sneeze makes electronics explode. One encounter … Read More
That year, while others were buying German sedans to drive ministers and joining new clubs where they were still waiters in spirit, this Kleva Black opened a jazz club cum … Read More
Janet Remmington, University of York On 9 October 1876, Solomon Tshekisho “Sol” Plaatje was born in the rural interior of what is now South Africa. He was raised in a … Read More
By CityLife Arts Writer Choreographer and performer Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe returns to the University of Johannesburg (UJ) as the 2026 Artist in Residence for dance. The residency comes after … Read More
This scholarly work was undertaken to piece together a narrative aimed at reconstructing the identity of one of the most elusive figures in South African literary history. By Edward Tsumele, … Read More
