Graffiti South Africa

Welcome to Graffiti South Africa.

The definitive African graffiti and street art website.

ABOUT

This website showcases graffiti and street art in South Africa as well as the rest of Africa. It provides artists with a platform to display their work and promote South African graffiti on the world stage.

A little history

The graffiti scene in South Africa is still relatively young. However, it is growing rapidly. Graffiti only really started after the abolition of Apartheid. Previously, it was regarded as a political crime. It wasn’t until the late ‘80s with the success of the New York graffiti scene that some teenagers in Cape Town came across a graffiti video that changed their lives for ever. They became the graffiti artists that influenced the entire South African graffiti scene as some of them moved to Johannesburg. Today, they are still writing as a new generation of graffiti artists paint their names.

News

Keep up-to-date by following our News blog which will share the latest news and events, as well as other interesting information about graffiti and street art - both local and international.

Contribute

If you have anything you would like to contribute to the site, then please send it our way. We are always looking for new content and would love to share what you have.

This site will be growing and expanding daily. So, read more about what to send and how to send it by reading our Contribution Guidelines.