Becker, Heike06/11/201806/11/20182018Becker, H. (2018). Remembering Marikana: public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town. Social Dynamics, Article in Press.0253-3952http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2018.1503905https://hdl.handle.net/10566/4188This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic� activist interventions engage an understanding of social justice and the right to the city in provocative visual and performance art. I demonstrate how such interventions reflect Lefebvre�s conceptualisation of the city as a space to be inhabited in an active process, which critically includes its re-imagination. The paper focuses on creative interventions in Cape Town that confronted the city�s genteel public space with the second and third anniversary of the shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana on August 16 2012. I argue that bringing the commemoration of the massacre into the public urban space � where post-apartheid Cape Town exhibits its claim to cosmopolitanism � challenges the politics of space in South Africa. I asked, how these cultural initiatives articulate claims through reimagining the city how they engage with the intertwined politics of culture and class followed by both the city and the nation�state, and how the artistic practices contest urban citizenship in contemporary South Africa.enThis is the post-print version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2018.1503905MarikanaCape TownPublic artRhodes Must FallTokolos StencilsArticle