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“I was introverted and so it was my way of speaking,” he recalls.“I would go out at night and do illegal graffiti, but doing it was my dream. It was a way out of the township.”

Dbongz started following his dreams when he was 18. Today, nearly 20 years later, he has moved from guerrilla graffiti to celebrated street artist.One of his most notable works downtown is a giant mural of the late jazz artist and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba, who was known as "Mama Afrika".“I was commissioned to do this by the city to tell the story of South African jazz.

“Graffiti is protest culture, very often political, but street art is more narrative. I’m living my dream and I want youth in the township to see me as a role model and believe in their creative dreams.”Melissa Calucci, the convener of the International Public Art Festival in Cape Town every year, says that Johannesburg "is the mecca for graffiti".

“The culture there is more welcoming to use it for the benefit of the city.

"For the last 20 years it has developed and now the level is very good - some artists have even gone overseas.”In 2023 the overspend on staffing in total was £1.8m, according to Mr Smith.

He said "we will do what we can to try to manage ahead to find small efficiencies, which will hopefully save hundreds of thousands of pounds".The cost of agency staff was the main driver behind the overspend, it was revealed.

Bin lorry drivers in Birmingham could have their pay cut by up to £8,000 under new proposals, their union said, asenters its eighth week.