Litha Ncokazi was born in South Africa in the Eastern Cape small town of Ngcobo in the Cwecweni village. He is a creative‐social‐entrepreneur, university lecturer, researcher and practicing visual artist. Litha acquired his 12 year lecturing experience working for the Walter Sisulu University in the Eastern Cape. 

Durng his more than a decade lecturing service rendered at WSU, Litha mentored undergraduate and post-graduate students some of whom went‐on to become well accomplished creatives, art practitioners, teachers and art administrators in various professional environments. As a creative‐social‐entrepreneur who has been in the professional art practice for over 15 years now, he has also been committed to the purpose of building a career for himself in business as an arts-development, education and training expert. 

Litha sought to achieve his dream through the establishment of his two arts enterprises, viz Art Versatile and the Creatives Enclave Artists Retreat and Residency. Both these enterprises have served as entrepreneurship spaces where Litha could access a wide array of enterprise development opportunities most of which gave him the urge to excel in his entrepreneurship career. Examples of such opportunities which Litha was honored to get are the inaugural Barloworld Mbewu 2019 Corporate Social Investment Scheme, Tsogo Sun Entrepreneurs 2019, South African Tourism Hidden Gems 2017-19, SAB Kickstart 2014 to mention a few. Further to this, the Art Versatile and Creatives Enclave bands were established by Litha to serve the purpose of promoting the visual art practice as a basis for creative-intellectual experience as well as a vehicle for socio-economic growth especially for people living in deep rural areas of South Africa, environments which he is familiar with having been brought up from one. 

Litha’s endearing love for art led to his devotion of time and other resources towards advancing his visual art practice producing artwork of a high standard which embodies his critical view to life, socio‐economic issues and issues pertaining to human identity, as a product of social impressions on individual human beings. He creates and produces his art from his private art studio, a fully equipped ceramics unit in Acardia, East London. Litha’s desire to pursue a career in the practice of visual art grew more when he moved to East London in 2001 to enroll with the then Border Technikon for a National Diploma Fine Art qualification which he completed in 2003. 

Subsequent to this he enrolled again with Border Tech to do a B. Tech Fine Art degree which he completed in 2005. Litha has also been enrolled with the University of South Africa for a Masters in Visual Art qualification and expects to graduate in 2021. The most outstanding highlight of Litha’s academic career was his attainment of both the National Diploma and B. Tech Fine Art by distinction ‘Cum Laude’.