CityLife Arts is a specialist arts publication that focuses on visual art, theatre and literature.
Mariapaola McGurk, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Johannesburg is weathering a storm of crises. Nowhere is its complex tangle of challenges more visible than in the inner city, where … Read More
Darius Brubeck, University of KwaZulu-Natal Lex Futshane, the South African bass player in the 1992 student band NU Jazz Connection, was the first to tell me that the great South … Read More
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Cornell University Netflix began its Africa operations in South Africa in 2016. When the US streaming giant announced it was setting up shop in Nigeria in 2020, … Read More
By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor After his demise the social media platforms became abuzz with messages of both mourning and celebration of a life well lived by one of the … Read More
By Gregory Maqoma The Great Illusion: How Government Funding in South Africa Has Been Engineered for Dependence, Perhaps Even More For Humiliation. Government funding in South Africa, especially in the … Read More
Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising … Read More
Nicky Falkof, University of the Witwatersrand American president Donald Trump has issued an executive order to withdraw aid from South Africa. He was reacting to what he has called the … Read More
