We’re challenging community members to find their way through the city by knowing where Johannesburg’s amazing public art is situated.
Exploring the city can sometimes be confusing and scary, leaving one petrified of the unruly taxi drivers, worried about the dangers lurking behind every corner and stuck between numbers of buildings that sometimes become a concrete jungle which cannot be navigated.
Fret no more, because City Buzz is helping you identify your surroundings.
Do you know where this mural is found?
You can find it in the heart of the CBD on one of the busiest roads in the city – a road that was named after one of Johannesburg’s founding fathers.
Located directly across the road from the mural is the University of South Africa and the Gauteng Department of Education and just one street over is the famous Ghandi Square.
Also located on Fox Street is the equally famous, and historically significant, Rand Club, which can still be seen by the public from the outside, but is undergoing renovation on the inside.
If you guessed that the mural is found on the corner or Rissik and Fox streets, you’d be correct.
This piece was painted by world-famous artist, Faith47.
It is called una salus victis nullam sperare salutem and spreads across the three inside walls of a building that was torn down on Rissik Street.
According to StreetArtNews, the excerpt is pulled from a poem in a book called Aeneid, written by Latin poet Virgil.
While the wear and tear of Johannesburg’s unpredictable weather on the awe-inspiring piece may indicate that it was painted many years ago, it was only completed in April last year.
With so much art is on display on the walls of the city, and so many pieces that attract the attention of the masses, what better way to navigate your way around Johannesburg than by appreciating the beauty of each work of art that you pass on your way.
