Coordinates: 33°55′54″S 18°28′06″E / 33.93167°S 18.46833°E / -33.93167; 18.46833
AFDA the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance is a film, television and performance school with campuses located in Auckland Park, Johannesburg; Observatory, Cape Town; Durban North, Durban; and Newton Park, Port Elizabeth. AFDA is a full member of CILECT and its degrees are recommended at a number of international schools. It offers three three year undergraduate degree programmes - a Bachelor of Arts in Live Performance, a Bachelor of Arts in Motion Pictures and a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Innovation and Enterprise, as well as postgraduate degrees, Honours or a Master of Fine Arts (MFA).
AFDA has campuses in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth. AFDA was established in Johannesburg in 1994 and is situated on a 10,000 square metre campus close the national TV broadcaster, the SABC. AFDA Cape Town campus was established in 2003 in Observatory on a 7000 square metre campus in an area just outside the central business district. AFDA Durban campus opened its doors on 4 February 2013. AFDA Durban is situated in the Durban North area and suburb of Glen Anil. The three story building is an ex-municipal building that will be converted into a campus to accommodate 350 students studying film, TV, music and acting over four year groups of students.
High flying, adored
So young, the instant queen
A rich, beautiful thing
Of all the talents
Across between
A fantasy of the bedroom
And a saint
You were just a backstreet girl
Hustling and fighting
Scratching and biting
High flying, adored
Did you believe
In your wildest moments
All this would be yours
That you'd become
The lady of them all?
Were there stars in your eyes
When you crawled in at night
From the bars, from the sidewalks
From the gutter-the-atrical?
Don't look down
It's a long, long way to fall
High flying, adored
What happens now?
Where do you go from here?
For someone on top of the world
The view is not exactly clear
A shame you did it all
At twentysix
There are no mysteries now
Nothing can thrill you
No one fulfill you
High flying, adored
I hope you come to terms with burden
So famous, so easily
So soon is not the wisest thing to be
You won't care if they love you
It's been done before
You'll despair if they hate you
You'll be drained of all energy
All the young who've made it
Would agree
High flying, adored
That's good to hear
But unimportant
My story's quite usual:
Local girl makes good
Weds famous man
I was slap in the right place
At the perfect time
Filled a gap - I was lucky
But one thing I say for me
No one else can fill it