
Dathini Mzayiya
Dathini was born in 1979 in the Eastern Cape. He attended the former Community Arts Project (CAP) after which he enrolled for an advertising and marketing degree at the Advertising College of South Africa in 1999. He then went onto study graphic design at Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2000 as well as a business diploma at the Scalabrini Centre in 2004.
Dathini has exhibited in numerous art exhibitions andmural projects in various countries around the world,including Germany, Ethiopia and Austria as well asexhibiting locally in Johannesburg and Cape Town.He continues to participate in community projects,workshops, and residencies both locally and abroad.Dathini also received a Youth Veteran Award from theKhayelitsha Development Forum and continues to working his own space at the Greatmore Street Studios.
