tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59323112088638471722024-03-05T06:46:48.084+02:00Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi - Mantini waLanga Fine ArtsIt has been quite a while that I haven't shown my work to the general public. I am proud to now to say - at last, I have a platform to show my work. Please enjoy looking at itMuziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-2912976677576131102022-07-18T12:07:00.000+02:002022-07-18T12:07:05.149+02:00Zanele Mashinini<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{161}" paraid="14361423" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 33.4542px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">G</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">enius</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> N</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">eeds</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> M</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">oney</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – H</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ow </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">do you think </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">rt </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">gets created</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">? </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 33.4542px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Credit: James Sanders</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{177}" paraid="1793792261" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{181}" paraid="1270730686" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="-webkit-text-fill-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: windowtext; font-family: WordVisi_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures no-discretionary-ligatures no-historical-ligatures no-contextual;">Zanele Mashinini</span> is that rare thing – a township organic intellectual. He is also one of the funniest men in the southern hemisphere. A unique creative artist – fluent in words and images – Zanele is something of a role model for confused youth in Soweto. </span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{187}" paraid="171397149" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{191}" paraid="2037523548" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">When it was not fashionable for Soweto youngsters to <br />enrol for an arts education. He instead got himself a place in a community arts school. His linear drawings, his signature style to this day, catapulted him to stardom.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{197}" paraid="1571515515" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{201}" paraid="518364675" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Zanele, taught youngsters fine arts in the townships of Soweto before the security branch got interested in him political activist's. Zanele's political satire linear art aptly titled "Free But Fucked" blew on his face.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{207}" paraid="48969615" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyhH-VhCOtj7rwPuZlp0MAzSMFC3x9gFLOhntKdAC0vh0SSYq-9Y6e1VBfOkQRv02jCY0CBimfWviqilDlhWjCfYYIOaB_D1KNMJCbZ4T4z5I3AtkV0OpSVArrXV_N4vUiUtR95qVoBSEJ6sNK7mWMa51olqpzSqSCqfA3NXEjZBMS76RaaMd6JuIwgw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="568" height="843" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyhH-VhCOtj7rwPuZlp0MAzSMFC3x9gFLOhntKdAC0vh0SSYq-9Y6e1VBfOkQRv02jCY0CBimfWviqilDlhWjCfYYIOaB_D1KNMJCbZ4T4z5I3AtkV0OpSVArrXV_N4vUiUtR95qVoBSEJ6sNK7mWMa51olqpzSqSCqfA3NXEjZBMS76RaaMd6JuIwgw=w572-h843" width="572" /></a></div><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{211}" paraid="1106216223" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The poster attracted the wrath of apartheid security police. The soft spoken artist was hounded and harassed by apartheid security apparatus. The only way out for Zanele was to flee the county of his birth.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{217}" paraid="1778755593" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{221}" paraid="125904888" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">According to Mondri Mongra his friend from Mongolia, he says "Zanele whose non de plume was Jovianne Maikweianne stayed in Ulaanbaatar for several months and was unable to speak any of the local languages.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{227}" paraid="1513733091" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{231}" paraid="2094226434" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Mondri Mongra who still has some of Zanele's masterly creation was relieved to learn that his long lost friends was still alive. "Zanele just disappeared like a puff. We were asleep together in the same abode when Zanele took off. We spoke until the early hours that morning."</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{237}" paraid="1103688598" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{241}" paraid="1699564773" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">"Like in a sordid detective story. There were no bye byes. Zanele just disappeared. Knowing his limitations when it comes to negotiating his way around the City. I thought he had just gone around the cornet. </span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{247}" paraid="1923339244" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{3e5cfdec-8b4b-4e03-9f74-3377ac36a58a}{251}" paraid="1165768781" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">What counted against Zanele was his language deficiency. I thought there was no way Zanele could leave the country."</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{2}" paraid="218862605" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{6}" paraid="1710566550" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">"What also made me unease was the fact that we have uncontrollable gangsters activities in out neighbourhood. I was alarmed when Zanele failed to come back home."</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{12}" paraid="237481994" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{16}" paraid="1233449209" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">"The fact that there are miniscule Africans in this part of the world make me very nervous. In my head I thought it would be easy to locate Zanele. As it turned out I was very wrong."</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{22}" paraid="1611013708" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{26}" paraid="948417660" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">"I scoured morgues, police stations, brothel and night club without any trace. I am so thrilled to learn that my friend has come back from the dead. How this chap left Mongolia is a unfathomable." remarked Mondri Mongra who look older than his actual age.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{32}" paraid="1156251036" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{36}" paraid="538961418" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1984</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> – Military and Psychological training in North Korea. Passes out with full honours. Popularly known as ‘the dear visitor’. Immediately placed on CIA emergency red-light warning list.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{44}" paraid="46710321" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 17.2667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 17.2667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{48}" paraid="1529828229" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">A visionary, Zanele is intricately connected to the spirit world but equally happy getting stuff for free.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Carly Simon claimed that Warren Beatty was ‘where he should be all the time’ in her 1972 hit ‘You’re So Vain’. Zanele Mashinini is where he shouldn't be most of the time.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{54}" paraid="254785057" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1985-1987</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> – Plays defensive midfield for Red Star Belgrade. Impenetrable football skills described by the Yugoslavian national team manager as “rigid, erotic, balletic and ultimately unnecessary.” Career-ending injury in European Cup semi-final – departs pitch to traditional Belgrade chant of “Taxi for the big man.”</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{62}" paraid="879411262" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{66}" paraid="104330564" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">He has never flown a Lear Jet up to Nova Scotia nor has he seen a total eclipse of the sun but he has exhibited his art in Paris, Zurich and Barcelona. His writing has been published in South Africa’s most prestigious journals and he is often consulted on matters of national importance. </span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{72}" paraid="1268045221" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{76}" paraid="1928075010" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1988-1980</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> – Enters the Space Program at NASA in Florida. Passes all tests with flying colours and is selected for first Martian expedition – later cancelled due to lack of funds and popular unrest in the Fort Lauderdale area. Mysterious disappearance of more than three tonnes of apples in the Deep South unexplained to this day.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{84}" paraid="1715178586" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{88}" paraid="1279124345" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Zanele Mashinini was born in Soweto on 2</span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-fontsize="12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> August 1962. He was the same age as Hector Pieterson on 16</span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun Superscript SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-fontsize="12" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: super;">th</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> June 1976. From a family of seven children – six boys and one girl – Zanele has continued the tradition by also having seven children – two boys and five girls. </span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{102}" paraid="1039058537" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{106}" paraid="285394138" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1990-1991</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> – Opens small mountain cafe in Alegria, El Salvador, specialising in rare coffees and a full English breakfast. Later worshipped as a god by the local community – The Church Of Zanele incorporating mermaid love as a central tenet of its theology. Peace breaks out throughout Central America. </span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{114}" paraid="843485830" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 17.2667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 17.2667px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{118}" paraid="853608582" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">‘Mr Mashinini’ as he often called by friends and neighbours, is a paradox: he knows everyone but is misunderstood by most. Some see a sangoma, others a military veteran. His leadership skills are opaque, his IT technique extraordinary. A cartoon should be published daily in the newspapers: ‘Zanman’ – Hollywood movie versions to follow. </span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{124}" paraid="911653291" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":360}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 28.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{128}" paraid="1464720931" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1992</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> – Recruited by a travelling circus in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where he snake-charmed, sat on the top of a pole in the jungle for weeks at a time and studied ancient healing charms. Writes classic South-East Asian one-act play investigating negativity, earache and tax fraud: ‘Ne’.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{136}" paraid="1632622733" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">1993</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; 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Following a vision of ‘17 elephants dancing the tango’ retreats to a hut in Umbria where he lives on rare Italian cheeses and studies jujitsu and synchronised swimming. 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Get under employed, unemployed and unemployable. Depending on how you view Zanele has refused to be a victim of the circumstances. When we met with Zanele he was busy writing a biography of his late brother Minus Mashinini killed by known comrades.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{164}" paraid="77541835" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{168}" paraid="428322070" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Zanele still lives underground. He has no known address. No bank book and friends. He normally gets sanctuary at Zola where he will stay with one of the most illustrated struggle artist\illustrator Bra Mzwakhe Nhlabatsi. If not in Zola Soweto, he is in Walkerville in the South of Johannesburg Metropolitan away.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{174}" paraid="1393721953" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{178}" paraid="1623032324" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">This reporter has learnt that Zanele has other crib across South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia and Lesotho. Zanele hopes to exhibit some of his art in a one man show. When asked what his future plan is: Zanele a serial isangoma says "The Ancestors will dictate"</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{184}" paraid="1648913413" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{188}" paraid="1792246295" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Prof. James Sanders born in London and stays in the United States is author of Apartheid Spies, an international political commentator, investigative journalist, founder editor of Molotov Cocktail.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{194}" paraid="1090610476" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW44511204 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW44511204 BCX0" paraeid="{284b2012-3131-42a1-bb2c-ca258a58596b}{198}" paraid="501622104" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Sanders has worked for the BBC, ABC News, News of the World, he has also travelled extensively across the world.</span><span class="EOP SCXW44511204 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-50010347582641657812022-07-17T12:59:00.000+02:002022-07-17T12:59:05.364+02:00Zanele Mashinini<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p aria-level="3" class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{26ec00cc-103a-441f-939b-1a7ad430711e}{51}" paraid="202026389" role="heading" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1f3763; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 22.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 37.7708px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">A life's history - the life and struggle of artist Zanele Mashinini</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtqcyUVM3MBBQp0xLH2jXkoDVEbfN0fkidI37rUYVApJ4p-Kt3KYZnLeZpTAg4GIheujdrUeJZ3AkThwRocMBbzU2XNtKoGrVv1SQj6b8F7NV4Srgo69WD0leJx9202zIYWRYSJpbfqOQzjo8RhpmB95ET1b4v5TpufeiZ-FhXoO8AQsSosdOWHvzH4w" style="margin-left: 1em; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Penned by Professor Franco Frescura One of the truisms coined by the old Anti-Apartheid Movement is that there can be no normal life in the context of an abnormal society. It is also true that artistic </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">endeavour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> can only flourish when it is part of a struggle against adversity, against the symbols of an oppressive ideology, and against the actions of a fascist regime, one that sets out to imprison its citizens inside a web of totalitarian laws which limit their thoughts and actions. It is only when inspired by a real need to achieve freedom that an art of Freedom can be achieved, for no art of any meaning has ever achieved freedom from the confines of a polite salon, from a contented and self-satisfied society raised on “</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); 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And it was here that Zanele Mashinini was born and raised. It was here that, at the tender age of three he began sketching on scraps of paper, encouraged by a mother who, at, every possible occasion, impressed upon him that to every birth there is a certain mission to be undertaken. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f58fcc69-64da-47f3-90c8-709fbfc1fbf1}{45}" paraid="1356489682" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the same breath his mother, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNXB4IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjRweCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUgNCIgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4xIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHhtbG5zOnhsaW5rPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8xOTk5L3hsaW5rIj4KICAgIDwhLS0gR2VuZXJhdG9yOiBTa2V0Y2ggNTYuMiAoODE2NzIpIC0gaHR0cHM6Ly9za2V0Y2guY29tIC0tPgogICAgPHRpdGxlPnNwZWxsaW5nX3NxdWlnZ2xlPC90aXRsZT4KICAgIDxkZXNjPkNyZWF0ZWQgd2l0aCBTa2V0Y2guPC9kZXNjPgogICAgPGcgaWQ9IkZsYWdzIiBzdHJva2U9Im5vbmUiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMSIgZmlsbD0ibm9uZSIgZmlsbC1ydWxlPSJldmVub2RkIj4KICAgICAgICA8ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtMTAxMC4wMDAwMDAsIC0yOTYuMDAwMDAwKSIgaWQ9InNwZWxsaW5nX3NxdWlnZ2xlIj4KICAgICAgICAgICAgPGcgdHJhbnNmb3JtPSJ0cmFuc2xhdGUoMTAxMC4wMDAwMDAsIDI5Ni4wMDAwMDApIj4KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wLDMgQzEuMjUsMyAxLjI1LDEgMi41LDEgQzMuNzUsMSAzLjc1LDMgNSwzIiBpZD0iUGF0aCIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBzdHJva2Utd2lkdGg9IjEiPjwvcGF0aD4KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDxyZWN0IGlkPSJSZWN0YW5nbGUiIHg9IjAiIHk9IjAiIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjwvcmVjdD4KICAgICAgICAgICAgPC9nPgogICAgICAgIDwvZz4KICAgIDwvZz4KPC9zdmc+")); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">MaMoloi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, was laying down a foundation for the young child to understand that to accomplish certain purposes in life one needed to connect with them to their fullest core. 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As a result, these giants were hounded by the Security Police, who kept them under constant surveillance and, because of their progressive political views, labeled them as “subversive troublemakers or terrorists." Consequently, many of them were induced to seek the more liberal airs of Paris, London and New York, where their talents were better accepted, and even admired. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{275d2484-40c6-42b2-800d-e9309f080445}{98}" paraid="695177166" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Thanks to publications such as The Voice, Staff Rider and a host of other alternative media which gave a voice to the marginalized masses, Zanele came to realize that artists were also opinion makers. As a consequence of his love for the arts Zanele was also exposed to the “Black Jesus”, a “controversial” painting created by Ronald Harrison who was then teaching at King Edwards VII School, and taught a number of young artists who became influential in their time. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{323ddc2e-2051-4705-98ba-c20f04926817}{149}" paraid="439651624" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">As a result, a number of White artists and architects such Franco Frescura and Gavin Young who also played a part in the anti-Apartheid movement, unknowingly because contemporaries of the young Zanele. 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Pancho presented Zanele with a book of graphics done by his son, which proved to be greatly influential upon his linear drawings. Little by little the spirit of rebellion was emerging in the graphic work of the young Zanele. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{2b47a80d-570b-46c3-a0e8-c466b082554a}{151}" paraid="341353095" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">At the Orlando AB </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNXB4IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjRweCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUgNCIgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4xIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHhtbG5zOnhsaW5rPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8xOTk5L3hsaW5rIj4KICAgIDwhLS0gR2VuZXJhdG9yOiBTa2V0Y2ggNTYuMiAoODE2NzIpIC0gaHR0cHM6Ly9za2V0Y2guY29tIC0tPgogICAgPHRpdGxlPnNwZWxsaW5nX3NxdWlnZ2xlPC90aXRsZT4KICAgIDxkZXNjPkNyZWF0ZWQgd2l0aCBTa2V0Y2guPC9kZXNjPgogICAgPGcgaWQ9IkZsYWdzIiBzdHJva2U9Im5vbmUiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMSIgZmlsbD0ibm9uZSIgZmlsbC1ydWxlPSJldmVub2RkIj4KICAgICAgICA8ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtMTAxMC4wMDAwMDAsIC0yOTYuMDAwMDAwKSIgaWQ9InNwZWxsaW5nX3NxdWlnZ2xlIj4KICAgICAgICAgICAgPGcgdHJhbnNmb3JtPSJ0cmFuc2xhdGUoMTAxMC4wMDAwMDAsIDI5Ni4wMDAwMDApIj4KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wLDMgQzEuMjUsMyAxLjI1LDEgMi41LDEgQzMuNzUsMSAzLjc1LDMgNSwzIiBpZD0iUGF0aCIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBzdHJva2Utd2lkdGg9IjEiPjwvcGF0aD4KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDxyZWN0IGlkPSJSZWN0YW5nbGUiIHg9IjAiIHk9IjAiIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjwvcmVjdD4KICAgICAgICAgICAgPC9nPgogICAgICAgIDwvZz4KICAgIDwvZz4KPC9zdmc+")); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Xuma</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Lower Primary “the artistic bug was beginning to rise like a Phoenix cloud”. 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At the time, in 1976, this project aimed at providing an education for youngsters who were not attending school due to the upheavals in their streets. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{dd7ac115-7dcc-4b1f-a934-165da39badf7}{115}" paraid="1754237137" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In those heydays the seed for the arts was sprouting, especially at a time when the late </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiBlbmNvZGluZz0iVVRGLTgiPz4KPHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iNXB4IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjRweCIgdmlld0JveD0iMCAwIDUgNCIgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4xIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHhtbG5zOnhsaW5rPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8xOTk5L3hsaW5rIj4KICAgIDwhLS0gR2VuZXJhdG9yOiBTa2V0Y2ggNTYuMiAoODE2NzIpIC0gaHR0cHM6Ly9za2V0Y2guY29tIC0tPgogICAgPHRpdGxlPnNwZWxsaW5nX3NxdWlnZ2xlPC90aXRsZT4KICAgIDxkZXNjPkNyZWF0ZWQgd2l0aCBTa2V0Y2guPC9kZXNjPgogICAgPGcgaWQ9IkZsYWdzIiBzdHJva2U9Im5vbmUiIHN0cm9rZS13aWR0aD0iMSIgZmlsbD0ibm9uZSIgZmlsbC1ydWxlPSJldmVub2RkIj4KICAgICAgICA8ZyB0cmFuc2Zvcm09InRyYW5zbGF0ZSgtMTAxMC4wMDAwMDAsIC0yOTYuMDAwMDAwKSIgaWQ9InNwZWxsaW5nX3NxdWlnZ2xlIj4KICAgICAgICAgICAgPGcgdHJhbnNmb3JtPSJ0cmFuc2xhdGUoMTAxMC4wMDAwMDAsIDI5Ni4wMDAwMDApIj4KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0wLDMgQzEuMjUsMyAxLjI1LDEgMi41LDEgQzMuNzUsMSAzLjc1LDMgNSwzIiBpZD0iUGF0aCIgc3Ryb2tlPSIjRUIwMDAwIiBzdHJva2Utd2lkdGg9IjEiPjwvcGF0aD4KICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIDxyZWN0IGlkPSJSZWN0YW5nbGUiIHg9IjAiIHk9IjAiIHdpZHRoPSI1IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjQiPjwvcmVjdD4KICAgICAgICAgICAgPC9nPgogICAgICAgIDwvZz4KICAgIDwvZz4KPC9zdmc+")); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Matsemela</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Manaka and his comrades were giving their time in order to nurture youngsters through the idioms of artistic expression. 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The young Zanele was given some lessons by Basil which gave him enough ammunition to navigate on his own. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f90f319a-cffe-435b-b13e-26519d38b123}{19}" paraid="603022538" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It was Zanele's elder brother Sibusiso Saul Mashinini (</span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a.k.a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Minus) who would tease and lampoon his images. 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It was Minus who later heaped praise on the powerful anti-apartheid graphics that Zanele was producing. Zanele’s first commercial break came in 1996 when his graphic work came to the notice of the South African Post office. 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His alma mater, Orlando High School inducted his name onto its Alumni Roll of Honour, who's top hundred names feature some of South African most prominent luminaries drawn from such diverse field as media, medicine, sport, science, education, engineering, arts, culture, and politics. This Roll now graces the wall of his former school, an inspiration to new generations of aspiring scholars and athletes. 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He has decades of experience having worked within grassroots organizations as well as government and health sectors. In 1993 Zanele was granted permission by the nearly-defunct Nationalist Party government to take photographs on Robben Island as part of a photographic essay. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{56109b3e-2608-4893-be97-170a2fad2474}{42}" paraid="517026540" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The resultant exhibition was held in Cape Town and at the UNESCO offices in Paris. Zanele was also an avid reader, and literally devoured all sorts of texts, from both fact and fiction. He was a frequent visitor to the United States Information Services (USIS) library located at the Donaldson Community Centre, popularly known to its visitors as DOCC. 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The doyen of township theatre, Bra Gibson Kente, trained artists only a stone’s throw away from his home and became a great source of inspiration. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW63334304 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{56109b3e-2608-4893-be97-170a2fad2474}{164}" paraid="1392574239" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This further enhanced interest for the versatile multitalented artist to explore his talents. Zanele's literary highlights include writing the lyrics for the “Vuka Africa” single, which featured more than three hundred eminent South African artists. In </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">addition</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> Zanele is a founder member of African Musicians Against HIV/AIDS (AMAHA), was Project Manager for Arts for Life, and Business Development Manager in a publishing outfit. He is presently a Board Member of Ubuntu Phansi Museum. The “Mother of all </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: left bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Mothers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63334304 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">” artwork is a piece donated to Ubuntu Phansi Museum for its outreach projects. The proceeds will benefit predominantly women crafters in need of setting up sustainable businesses. Today Zanele’s work is guided by a simple philosophy. “My art is mainly influenced by the Spirits. I therefore, am a voice that will never be silenced because I need no validation. My work flows from places I don't know. If others carry guns to challenge the diabolic status quo. I carry a more potent armory: my ART”.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW63334304 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-64040791945132541992022-07-15T13:50:00.002+02:002022-07-15T13:52:38.909+02:00Eric Mbatha - the Shiyane Maboneng Rorkes Drift etching print master fine artist<div class="content">
<div id="bio_title" name="bio_title" style="text-align: left;" title="bio_title"><b>Eric Mbatha</b><img height="436" src="http://media.withtank.com/802f41dfed/eric-mbatha-01.jpg" width="543" /></div><div id="bio_title" name="bio_title" style="text-align: left;" title="bio_title">1948 - 2012</div><div id="bio_title" name="bio_title" style="text-align: left;" title="bio_title">Eric Mbatha had a longer relationship with Rorke’s Drift than most
artists, being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was
part of the second intake of artists who commenced classes in 1971. The
early 1970s saw a greater emphasis on intaglio printmaking at the
centre, and this included etching, aquatint, drypoint and even
mezzotint. Students were also encouraged to experiment by printing
etchings in colour, as opposed to colouring prints by hand. Mbatha’s <em>African queens</em> <a class="external" href="http://www.revisions.co.za/gallery/eric-mbatha/mbatha_eric_01.jpg/" target="_blank">(plate 211)</a>
is seen in the Campbell Smith Collection in a black and white version.
The same image is an example of an etching and aquatint that was also
printed sensitively in colour and where the colour actually enhanced the
completed print. In other versions Mbatha selectively inked various
sections of the plate in brown, green and black. In this work one can
also discern a similar approach to subject matter adopted by Mbatha’s
contemporaries at Rorke’s Drift such as Dan Rakgoathe (qv.) and Cyprian
Shilakoe (qv.).</div>
<p><b>Credit: </b>Joe Dolby - ReVisions<br />
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<p><b>Born</b> Soweto, 1948. <b>Training</b> 1971: Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. <b>Exhibitions</b> 1976: <em>Black South Africa: Contemporary Graphics</em>, Brooklyn Museum, New York. 1976: Visiting artist at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, <span class="caps">USA</span>. <b>Collections</b> Iziko South African National Galllery, Cape Town; De Beers Centenary Art Gallery, University of Fort Hare, Alice.</p>
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<p>Photograph of Eric Mbatha. Source: Prince Dube.</p><p>__________________________________________________</p><p>Eric Mbatha’s etchings <em>Young ones and the Gods</em> (1971) <a class="external" href="http://www.revisions.co.za/gallery/eric-mbatha/mbatha_eric_1.jpg/" target="_blank">(plate 34)</a> and <em>Family <span class="caps">IV</span></em> (1970) <a class="external" href="http://www.revisions.co.za/gallery/eric-mbatha/mbatha_eric_2.jpg/" target="_blank">(plate 35)</a> augment this artist’s <em>African Queens</em> (now dated c.1971) in the Campbell Smith Collection (see <em>ReVisions</em> pp. 230-231, <a class="external" href="http://www.revisions.co.za/gallery/eric-mbatha/mbatha_eric_01.jpg/" target="_blank"> (plate 211)</a>
These are all prints dating from the beginning of Mbatha’s involvement
with the Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift. As
has been previously noted, Mbatha was one artist who had an
exceptionally long relationship with the Centre. It is now known that he
had some training at the Polly Street Art Centre in Johannesburg under
Cecil Skotnes in the 1960s, and that he was part of the second intake of
students at Rorke’s Drift in 1971. However, prints by him dating from
1970 such as <em><a class="external" href="http://www.revisions.co.za/gallery/eric-mbatha/mbatha_eric_2.jpg/" target="_blank">Family <span class="caps">IV</span></a></em>, suggest that he may have even started informally at Rorke’s Drift before this.1</p>
<p>Although formal similarities with the more mystical works of Mbatha’s
associates Dan Rakgoathe (qv.) and Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.) can be
observed, Mbatha’s own etchings by comparison seem rooted in the
anecdotal present. In <em>Family <span class="caps">IV</span></em>, he
initially started by drawing with an etching needle into a plate wholly
covered in stop-out varnish. The plate was then placed in the acid bath
to establish the lines. It was then thoroughly cleaned. More stop-out
varnish was applied with a small hard brush in certain areas. The plate
was then gently heated and exposed to resin dust and acid baths to
obtain varying degrees of aquatint effect. <em>Young Ones and the Gods</em>
shows use of similar etching techniques, but with much less use of
intaglio line. Although the title suggests a mystical dimension, this is
not altogether evident.</p>
<p>Principal Otto Lundbohm gave his etching press to Cyprian Shilakoe
(qv.) when he left Rorke’s Drift. When Shilakoe died, he left it to Eric
Mbatha who later gave it to Dumisani Mabaso. In 1982 Mabaso established
the Squzu Studio in Soweto, where he installed it. The Squzu Studio
still operates in Bertrams, Johannesburg.</p>
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<li>See Elizabeth Rankin and Philippa Hobbs. 2003. <em>Rorke’s Drift: Empowering Prints</em>, Double Storey Press, Cape Town, p 217-218.<br /></li></ol><b>Credit:</b> Hayden Proud - ReVisions<br /><div id="bio_pic" name="bio_pic" style="text-align: right;" title="bio_pic"><img alt="Eric Mbatha Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Eric Mbatha Art Value Price Guide" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-noaft="1" height="457" jsname="Q4LuWd" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ1vAKmCvUiNV3RTEycVt4lJ3mV84lMKMbAMSUX3KQ8Wnb2mZSWulUjmH9LbiNULXf2VYU&usqp=CAU" style="text-align: left;" width="342" /><a aria-label="Visit Invaluable.com" class="eHAdSb" data-ved="0CAwQjRxqFwoTCIDPgb3h-vgCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAl" href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/mbatha-eric-vav626910l/sold-at-auction-prices/" rel="noopener" role="link" style="text-align: left;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Eric Mbatha Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Eric Mbatha Art Value Price Guide" class="n3VNCb KAlRDb" data-noaft="1" height="423" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Welz/25/323825/H1025-L29950770.jpg" style="height: 381px; margin: 0px; width: 520px;" width="577" /></a></div><p></p><aside class="col-sm-3" role="complementary"><div class="region region-sidebar-first"><section class="views-element-container block block-views block-views-blockarticle-image-block-4 clearfix" id="block-views-block-article-image-block-4"><div class="form-group"><div class="view view-article-image view-id-article_image view-display-id-block_4 js-view-dom-id-e90285e7d6423775234200f0cfa270924842f837f1c422d54aa8fb98219c727a"><div class="view-content"><div class="article-meta"><ul class="article-meta-item nav"><li><div class="views-field views-field-field-node-image-caption"><div class="field-content"><p><a href="http://revisions.co.za/biographies/eric-mbatha/" target="_blank">Image source</a></p>
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<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Eric Mbatha was born in <a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/places/soweto" target="_blank">Soweto</a>, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at <a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/rorkes-drift-art-and-craft-centre" target="_blank">Rorke`s Drift</a>.
He had a longer relationship with Rorke’s Drift than most artists,
being associated with the centre for most of the 1970s. He was part of
the second intake of artists who commenced classes in 1971. The early
1970s saw a greater emphasis on intaglio printmaking at the centre, and
this included etching, aquatint, drypoint and even mezzotint. Students
were also encouraged to experiment by printing etchings in colour, as
opposed to colouring prints by hand. Mbatha’s African queens is seen in
the Campbell Smith Collection in a black and white version. The same
image is an example of an etching and aquatint that was also printed
sensitively in colour and where the colour actually enhanced the
completed print. In other versions Mbatha selectively inked various
sections of the plate in brown, green and black. In this work one can
also discern a similar approach to subject matter adopted by Mbatha’s
contemporaries at Rorke’s Drift such as <a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/daniel-sefudi-rakgoathe" target="_blank">Dan Rakgoathe</a> and <a href="http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/cyprian-mpho-shilakoe" target="_blank">Cyprian Shilakoe</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Exhibitions:</strong></p>
<p><b>1976: </b>Black South Africa: Contemporary Graphics, Brooklyn Museum, New York.<br /><b>
1976:</b> Visiting artist at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, USA. Collections
Iziko South African National Galllery, Cape Town; De Beers Centenary
Art Gallery, University of Fort Hare, Alice.</p><p>Credit: South African History Online (SAHO)</p><p><br /></p>
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<div id="bio_title" name="bio_title" title="bio_title"><b>Eli Kobeli </b></div>
<p>Kobeli lived in Kroonstad, the town of his birth, as well as
Alexandra and Soweto in Johannesburg. He has been referred to by some as
the ‘Chagall of Soweto’, and works such as his earlier <em>Soweto vision <span class="caps">VI</span></em> (1980)<a href="http://revisions.co.za/biographies/eli-kobeli/#fn:bad" rel="footnote">1</a>, and <em>Impressions</em> (undated)<a href="http://revisions.co.za/biographies/eli-kobeli/#fn:bad" rel="footnote">2</a>
seem to justify this tag in some ways. Like Chagall, he experimented
with freely-arranged areas of abstraction which incorporate figurative
elements which vary in scale. There is furthermore no sense of
perspective or gravity in these works which seem reminscent of this
artist’s playful spirit. <em>Children playing in an urban landscape</em>
is a similar exercise in using abstraction as a basis for a
representational image. Interesting to note here is the fact that Kobeli
shared a mentor with Ephraim Ngatane (See <em>ReVisions</em>, pp. 154-
157) in the Rev. Hall Duncan. In many ways their approach to painting is
remarkably similar. In this work by Kobeli, broadly brushed areas of
yellow, white, green and black were applied in a calculated manner with
an emphasis on horizontal and vertical gestures. Loose slabs of colour
of varying scale were used to establish a sense of pictorial structure.
Using the same but contrasting colours on the palette, Kobeli then
picked out the forms of shacks and houses as suggested by the abstract
forms. Once these areas were dry, green, yellow and black were also used
to articulate small human forms at play.</p><p></p><div class="bRMDJf islir" jsaction="mousedown:npT2md; touchstart:npT2md;" jsname="DeysSe" role="button" style="display: inline !important; height: 201px;" tabindex="0"><img alt="Eli Kobeli Artwork for Sale at Online Auction | Eli Kobeli Biography & Info" class="rg_i Q4LuWd" data-atf="true" data-deferred="1" data-iml="1572" height="541" jsname="Q4LuWd" 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<p><b>Hayden Proud</b><br />
</p><p><b>Credit: ReVisions</b></p>
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<li> Pelmama Collection, mixed media on paper, 50 x 68 cm. </li>
<li> University of Fort Hare Collection, mixed media on paper, 50 x 70 cm. See <span class="caps">E.J.</span> de Jager, 1992. <em>Images of Man</em>. University of Fort Hare Press. p.8, plate 43.</li></ol></div>
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<p><b>Born</b> Kroonstad, Orange Free State, 1932; <b>Died</b> 1999 <b>Studies</b>
1958: Polly Street Art Centre, Johannesburg, under Cecil Skotnes, also
taught by the Reverend Hall Duncan, an American missionary. <b>Exhibitions</b>
A member of Artists under the Sun. Participated in many joint
exhibitions in South Africa (1963: Lidchi Gallery, Cape Town), the
United Kingdom and the United States. 1981: Solo exhibition, Gallery 21,
Johannesburg. 1982: Exhibited on the Exhibition of South African Art at
the National Gallery of Botswana, Gaberone. 2007: <em>Beyond the margins: selections from Soweto</em>, South Africa, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, <span class="caps">DC</span>. <b>Collections</b> De Beers Centenary Gallery, University of Fort Hare, Alice; <span class="caps">ABSA</span> Art Collection; Sanlam Art Gallery; Sasol Art Collection. </p>
</div></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-87199381817730161552022-07-15T12:47:00.000+02:002022-07-15T12:47:20.380+02:00Benjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born<p><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><a><b><img alt="Picture" class="wsite-image galleryImageBorder" src="http://www.gemsofafricagallery.com/uploads/1/0/1/2/10121201/7477918.jpg" style="border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 5px; padding: 3px;" /></b></a></span></p><div style="display: block; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: -10px; text-align: center;"></div><p><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"></span>
</p><div class="paragraph"><b>Date of birth:</b> 1937 <br /><b>Date of death:</b> 1997 <br /><br />Ben Macala was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on 21 April 1938. <br />He
spent his early years tending cattle on a farm, and did his first
drawings on rock formations using stones. Later his family moved to
Gauteng.</div><div class="paragraph">Macala's career as an artist began in 1965. Although he
was self-taught he had trained under Cecil Skotnes at the Jubilee Art
Centre in 1964, <a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" data-navigation="server" href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.mutualart.com%2FImages%2F2022_07%2F06%2F09%2F090101627%2F4343f03a-68bc-48dd-89ca-85d2c1b7b0c4-338.Jpeg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mutualart.com%2FArtist%2FBen-Macala%2F84666EB8ABDAD0DF&tbnid=BR28f-B0HipGPM&vet=12ahUKEwitzJ6W2fr4AhUDqRoKHUSoBa0QMygRegUIARDHAQ..i&docid=vomiJp1fzllOqM&w=338&h=213&q=ben%20macala%20biography&hl=en&client=firefox-b-d&ved=2ahUKEwitzJ6W2fr4AhUDqRoKHUSoBa0QMygRegUIARDHAQ" jsaction="J9iaEb;mousedown:npT2md; touchstart:npT2md;" jsname="sTFXNd" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"></a></div><span jsslot=""><a class="wXeWr islib nfEiy" data-nav="1" data-navigation="server" href="https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.mutualart.com%2FImages%2F2022_07%2F06%2F09%2F090101627%2F4343f03a-68bc-48dd-89ca-85d2c1b7b0c4-338.Jpeg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mutualart.com%2FArtist%2FBen-Macala%2F84666EB8ABDAD0DF&tbnid=BR28f-B0HipGPM&vet=12ahUKEwitzJ6W2fr4AhUDqRoKHUSoBa0QMygRegUIARDHAQ..i&docid=vomiJp1fzllOqM&w=338&h=213&q=ben%20macala%20biography&hl=en&client=firefox-b-d&ved=2ahUKEwitzJ6W2fr4AhUDqRoKHUSoBa0QMygRegUIARDHAQ" jsaction="J9iaEb;mousedown:npT2md; touchstart:npT2md;" jsname="sTFXNd" style="height: 180px;" tabindex="0"><div class="c7cjWc mvjhOe"></div></a></span><div class="paragraph">and in 1965 worked with, and received guidance from,
Ephraim Ngatane. In 1966 he was studying under Bill Ainslie for a
short period.<br /><br />Initially Macala worked as a sculptor, but later
focused on mixed-media pictorial work. Most of his works are
pastel/crayon studies of people with the aim to show the dignity and
tranquillity of his subjects and the importance of the animal world. His
most seen images are female heads and mother-and-child studies that
have a serene Madonna-like element. These later became popularized and
stylized and he began presenting these faces in group compositions. His
latter works before his death tend to be more refined and also
decorative, compared to many of his earlier works. <br /><br />He held 13
exhibitions in Europe and the United States of America from 1967 to
1985. He was also one of the few Black South African artists whose work
was seen locally, even during Apartheid. 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<div class="field field--name-field-this-day-in-history-3 field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field--item"><b>21 April 1937 - 1997</b></div>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Benjamin
Mzimkulu (Ben) Macala was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now
Free State). As a young boy he tended cattle on a farm in the Free State
and drew on rocks with stones. He was largely self-taught, although he
studied for a few months under Cecil Skotnes at Jubilee Art Centre in
1964. He was also guided by Ephraim Ngatane in the mid 1960s, and was a
pupil of Bill Ainslie for a short time. He held thirteen exhibitions
from 1967-1985 in South Africa, Europe and the US.
Macala’s chosen technique was pastel on paper, and his work has come to
be recognized by this medium. He has used other media from time to time.
His subject matter of Picasso-like portraits with huge black eyes is
easily identifiable in almost all his works.
Macala was also a practicing Sangoma (traditional healer).He died in
1997.
</div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><h1 class="page-title page-title_long"><span property="dc:title">Credit: South African History Online (SAHO)</span></h1></div>
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<div class="field--item"><p>Sack, S. (1988). <em>The Neglected Tradition</em>, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery.|Soweto Fine Art, <a href="https://www.sowetofineart.co.za/Martin%20PDF/cvbenmacala.pdf">Ben Macala 1937 ”“ 1997</a>, [online] Available at: <a href="https://www.sowetofineart.co.za/">www.sowetofineart.co.za</a> [Accessed: 16 April 2014]</p>
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</div></article></div></section></div></div></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-79143965752863988992022-07-14T19:33:00.002+02:002022-07-14T19:33:34.435+02:00Protest Fine Artist - Lucas Thusho Seage<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-large;"><b>Lucas
Thusho SEAGE</b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">1956 - 2009</span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Paintings,
assemblages, drawings</span></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><img border="2" height="556" src="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Lucas_SEAGE_1981.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="599" /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i>Lucas SEAGE in 1981</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="en-us" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lucas SEAGE, born in J</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;">ohannesburg
(Newclare) on 2<sup>nd</sup> November, 1956, died on 3rd November, 2009, near
the Botswana border. A Tswana national, he moved in 1958 with his parents to
Soweto.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">He started drawing at age of 11 using pencil and oil
pastel his parents had bought. In 1973, he passed Form II at Barolong High
School, Gaborone, Botswana, in 1975 he moved back to Johannesburg. In 1976 he
attended the Damelin College, Johannesburg, studying for Form III which he did
not finish.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">In 1976, he studied general art (painting,
sculpture, basic art history) at the
</span><a href="http://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Soweto_MofoloPark_Panorama_1980.jpg" style="text-align: justify;">Mofolo Art Centre, Soweto</a><span style="text-align: justify;">, then run by
Cyril Kumalo </span><i style="text-align: justify;">(Temba Cyril Mokhethi-Kumalo)</i><span style="text-align: justify;">, in 1977 he studied general
art at the Open School, Johannesburg, under Nat Mokgosi.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">During 1978/1980, he studied painting, sculpture,
basic art history at the Johannesburg Art Foundation under Bill Ainslie, Ricky
Burnett and Jenny Stadler. There he was introduced to the Dada and Surrealist
art movements.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">During 1981/1982, after a brief introduction in
media at the "Freie Universität" FU (Hediger) in Berlin, he began his studies at
the Düsseldorf Academy, Germany, under Joseph Beuys and Prof. Klaus Rinker, the
bursary being the
<a href="http://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/PDFs/KAF_1981_bursary_winners.pdf">1st prize</a> he had won in a national art competition in South
Africa. He cut short his studies due to ill health. In December, 1982, he
applied for a USA scholarship for drama and theatre but did not follow through. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">During 1987, Lucas
Seage designed and built sets for local and national film companies; in 1988 he
established an interior and design consulting agency in Soweto to promote and
educate local artists.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In about 2004 he
left Johannesburg for Durban to begin training as herbalist with local sangomas
and other spiritual leaders in Zululand.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">In 2007 he was
living in a small town close to Botswana, making expeditionary trips to
spiritual healers in different parts of Botswana.</p><p class="Default"><span style="font-family: Arial;">2009 Lucas Seage died from complications
associated with a diabetic condition acquired in recent years. He is survived by
his son <i>Herman Obusitswe Seage.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;">EXHIBITIONS and
COMPETITIONS</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">1980</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">1st <u>Solo</u>
show at the Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg <i>(“Internal Affairs”)</i>
(October)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">1981</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">One of “Five
Transvaal artists” (Group show) at Gowlett Gallery, Cape Town – August, 1981
(collages + 2 assemblages)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">1981</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Won 1st overall
prize for sculpture at The Haenggi Foundation National Art Competition 1981,
Johannesburg, enabling him to take up a 2-year Konrad Adenauer Foundation
bursary at the Düsseldorf Academy in Germany.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Lucas_SEAGE_Style_1981.jpg"><img alt="Lucas SEAGE with his 4 entries submitted to The Haenggi Foundation National Competition 1981 (Konrad Adenauer Foundation bursary), ill. in Style © Oct 1981" border="0" height="301" src="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Lucas_SEAGE_Style_1981_small.jpg" width="298" xthumbnail-orig-image="images/Lucas_SEAGE_Style_1981.jpg" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Lucas SEAGE with his 4
works submitted for the national competition. The bed was the prize-winning
entry (click on image </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">©</span></span><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">
for a better view)!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-weight: 700;">1983</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Market Theatre
Gallery, Johannesburg (May) - 2nd <u>Solo</u> show</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-weight: 700;">1983</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Included in The Haenggi
Foundation Inc., Johannesburg (PELMAMA Permanent Art Collection) - Group exhibition</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: 700;">1986</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Included in Gallery 21,
Johannesburg (Contemporary African Art from the PELMAMA Permanent Art
Collection)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">1988</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Included in Johannesburg Art
Gallery, Johannesburg - The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of SA Art
(1930-1988)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-weight: 700;">1990</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Gallery “Passe Par
Tout”, Rosebank, Johannesburg (March) (“Metamorphosis”) - 3rd <u>Solo</u> show
(pastel drawings)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-weight: 700;">1990/1991</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="en-us">Included
</span><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: small;">in
“Art from South Africa” touring exhibition in England, organized by MOMA, Oxford</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-weight: 700;">1995</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Included in
“Africus” Johannesburg Biennale (28<sup>th</sup> February to 30<sup>th</sup>
April, 1995)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">2009/2010</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;">SA National
Gallery, Cape Town (“Dada South - Exploring Dada legacies in South African
art 1960 to the present” (12<sup>th</sup> December/28<sup>th</sup> February)
</span><i><span style="font-size: small;">(included)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700; text-align: center;">Konrad Adenauer Foundation </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: left;"> <i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The following is
a Statement made by The Haenggi Foundation Inc., Johannesburg, to the Konrad
Adenauer Foundation on 8<sup>th</sup> September, 1981:</span></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Lucas Seage is confident as far as his future in art is
concerned (when he submitted his works to the Selection Committee, he even
stated that he was sure he would win the first prize!); he is however easily
influenced by the general opinions of others concerning life, politics, etc.
and can get very upset about the present situation in S.A., which he
portrays in his creations. Our feeling is that Düsseldorf (Prof. Beuys) or
something similar would be the right venue for his further studies. He
prefers working by himself, or in a small group. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">He is also interested in drama.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">His finances have to be very strictly controlled, as of late
he has been supported by certain churches and other benefactors and he has
not had to depend much on his own efforts. He is very friendly, joyful,
moody and sensitive.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">Out of 4 works submitted to the Jury (2 paintings and 2
sculptures), 3 were accepted for exhibition, including the prize winning
entry.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none; padding: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">We do support his application and feel that he will be one of
the most important contemporary Black artists in time to come.”</span></p>
</blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">SUPPORTING STATEMENTS to the Konrad Adenauer Foundation were also given by Paul
Stopforth, Terence King and Bill Ainslie.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">S.A. National Gallery, Cape Town</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: small; font-style: italic;">(PELMAMA PERMANENT ART COLLECTION)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <i><span lang="en-us"><span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.pelmama.org/SEAGE.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;">Two works</span></a> -
<a href="http://www.pelmama.org/SEAGE-FoundObject.htm">sculpture</a> +
<a href="http://www.pelmama.org/SEAGE-LSEA8601.htm">m/media</a></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">__________________________________________________</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; font-weight: 700;">
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lucas SEAGE "No title", 1986 - mixed media drawing with collage on Fabriano paper - 96.8x126.5 cm (img. JAG)" border="1" height="300" src="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Seage_JAG.jpg" width="425" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">"No
title", 1986 - mixed media drawing with collage on Fabriano paper -
96.8x126.5 cm (img. JAG)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________________ <span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700;">University of Fort Hare, Alice</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lucas SEAGE "African Circumcision", m/media collage on board - 113x113cm - cat. 219 UFH Coll." border="1" height="365" src="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Seage_UFH_cat219.jpg" width="365" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">"African Circumcision", m/media collage on board -
113x113cm - cat. 219</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><img alt="Lucas SEAGE "Abstract", 1986 - m/media on paper - 68x98 cm - cat. 220 (UFH Collection)" border="1" height="319" src="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Seage_UFH_cat220.jpg" width="464" /></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Abstract", 1986 - m/media on paper - 68x98 cm - cat. 220</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Both images illustrated in </span></i>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;">
ISBN 1-86810-015-4</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">__________________________________________________</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">WITS ART MUSEUM,
Johannesburg</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lucas SEAGE "Coffin of the migrant worker" - Wood, nails, bones, found materials - 46.0x70.3x27.6 cm (Donated to WAM by Lionel Murcott in 1995)" border="0" height="472" src="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/SEAGE_WAM.jpg" width="709" /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">"Coffin of the migrant worker" - Wood, nails, bones, found
materials - 46.0x70.3x27.6 cm</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">Donated to the Wits Art Museum by Lionel Murcott in 1995</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: medium;">PRESS NOTICES</span></span></b></p><div align="center">
<table border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 834px;">
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Star, Johannesburg, 5.5.1980</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">.</span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sunday Times, 7.6.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Soweto riots - as seen by a black artist (Doreen
Levin)</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Beeld,
8.7.1981 </span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Seage wen Adenauer-Beurs (Deon Viljoen)</span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Star, 10.7.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">German scholars to exhibit (John Dewar)</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Beeld, 10.7.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">‘n Kans om weer te begin lewe (Deon Viljoen)</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sunday Times, 12.7.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Award for sculpture of a bed (Doreen Levin)</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sowetan, 17.7.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Art of protest (Nat Mokgosi)</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sowetan, 17.7.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Objects lost and found (Kaizer Ngwenya)</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Star, 17.7.1981</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><i>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photograph of Seage</span></i></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Rand Daily Mail, 17.7.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Best of today’s black art (Joyce Ozynski)</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Citizen, 22.7.1981</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Black artists’ contest (Richard Cheales)</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sunday Express, 26.7.1981</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Art show row over “Biko” entry (C. Vickers)</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Cape Times, 15.8.1981, p6 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Future” artists show works (Benita Munitz)</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The
Argus, 18.8.1981</span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">"Black
art in the doldrums?" (Rose Korber)</span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sowetan, 17.11.1981 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Lucky break for 2 artists</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Style, Johannesburg, Oct 1981</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><i>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Picture of Seage and his work - in colour</span></i></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Staffrider, Nov. 1981 – Vol.4 No.3</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Art and Social Struggle (Lucas Seage interviewed by
David Koloane)</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Star, 13.5.1983</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Political art that struggles to communicate </span>
</span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Beeld, 14.5.1983</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Relevant maar betekenisloos (M. Martin)</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">New
Nation, 2.3.1990</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Artists still face major hurdles</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Weekly Mail, 16.3.1990</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Seage drops his assemblage (S. Khan)</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Sowetan, 26.3.1990 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Talented Soweto artist to exhibit (E. Makhaya)</span></span></td>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Southern Africa Today, April 1990</span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Notice + Picture</i> (Christine Burgess)</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Star, 9.4.1990 </span></span></td>
<td align="center" width="416"><span lang="EN-US">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The rebel loses his cause (Kendell Geers)</span></span></td>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Lucas_Seage_interview_1981.jpg" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lucas SEAGE in Staffrider November 1981 article: Art and Social Struggle (Lucas Seage interviewed by David Koloane)" border="1" height="239" src="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Lucas_Seage_portrait_Staffrider_1981.jpg" width="164" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Click on image to read the <a href="https://www.art-archives-southafrica.ch/images/Lucas_Seage_interview_1981.jpg">
interview</a> published in Staffrider in November 1981!</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">OTHER
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Art & Artists of South Africa (Balkema) (Berman), 1983, p.49 – ISBN 0 86961 144
5</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Art from South Africa - MOMA, Oxford (D. Elliott), 1990</span><i style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">, p.75, ill.8 – </i><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">
ISBN 0 905836 71 5</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">“Contemporary South African Art” - The Gencor Collection (Jonathan Ball) (K.
Geers), 1997, pp. 127, 144 - ISBN 1-86842-039-6</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Images of Man - Contemporary South African Black Art and Artists (E.J. de Jager),
1992, var., ill. 219, 220 – ISBN 1-86810-015-4</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Images of Metal (Witwatersrand University Press) (E. Rankin), p.38 – ISBN 1
86814 257 4</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Images of Wood (Johannesburg Art Gallery) (E. Rankin) 1989 - ISBN
978-0-620-13867-3</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Painting in South Africa (Southern Book Publishers) (Berman), 1993, p.301 – ISBN
1 86812 479 7</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Resistance Art in South Africa (David Philip) (Sue Williamson), 1989, ill p.65 –
ISBN 0-86486-124-9</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of SA Art (1930-1988) -
Johannesburg Art Gallery (Steven Sack), 1988, ill. 157, p. 83 – ISBN
0-620-13184-5</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"Un Art Contemporain
d'Afrique du Sud" (Ed. Plumes) (Jouannais), 1994, pp. 62/63, ill. p. 63 - ISBN 2 84110 027 8</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visual Century – South African Art in Context – Vol. 3 1973-1992 (Wits
University Press) (Pissarra), 2011, pp 3, 21, 23, 65, 85, ill p.22 – ISBN 978 1
86814 526 3</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Visual Century – South African Art in Context – Vol. 4 1990-2007 (Wits
University Press) (Goniwe, Pissarra, Majavu), 2011, p 131 – ISBN 978 1 86814 527
0</span></p>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-32757957996891185772022-07-14T19:14:00.001+02:002022-07-14T19:14:16.148+02:00Sonja Ferlov Mancoba<header class="entry-header">
<h1 class="entry-title">Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Denmark 1911 – 1984</h1></header><div class="entry-contentVervolg"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Grn_G0KuhOHYYHhtKAyTFaM4kf6u8EMznkKRNcYg6wFwalofTusjI73LlhajfrDumRxEuvizi21xhrvGjL2MkeYlstgldUgEfoLa-ODSAfb2zyBKQP6VP5R3Tvr-g3J20VyopM7W1lzyPxR9Kh8-x9k0XGByTIGUCQ3joSohfdFyr-NhqDaqh0Dppg/s500/image_2022-07-14_191305990.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="355" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Grn_G0KuhOHYYHhtKAyTFaM4kf6u8EMznkKRNcYg6wFwalofTusjI73LlhajfrDumRxEuvizi21xhrvGjL2MkeYlstgldUgEfoLa-ODSAfb2zyBKQP6VP5R3Tvr-g3J20VyopM7W1lzyPxR9Kh8-x9k0XGByTIGUCQ3joSohfdFyr-NhqDaqh0Dppg/w359-h506/image_2022-07-14_191305990.png" width="359" /></a></div><h3>Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst<br /><br /></h3><p class="p1">Sonja Ferlov Mancoba started making sculptures in 1935.
Painting then became of secondary importance. She created her sculptures
in clay and plaster. Subdued forms with flowing lines dominate her
oeuvre. A recurring motif in Ferlov Mancoba’s work is the mask. She
discovered masks early on in her childhood through a family friend’s
large collection of figures and masks from Africa. This influence can be
seen, for example, in the work <i>Mask</i> (Table Mask/Birth of the Mask) (1965-75). The plaster version of this sculpture literally served as such in her studio.</p>
<p class="p1">In 1936, Ferlov Mancoba left for Paris. Here she played a
crucial role in the contact between the French avant-garde and
like-minded Danish artists. After the Second World War, she joined the
artists’ association Høst in Denmark. And through Høst she became
involved with Cobra. Her contribution was relatively limited, although
her work was featured in the Cobra magazine and a booklet was dedicated
to her in the series Bibliothèque de Cobra. In 1952, she and her husband
Ernest Mancoba (also a Cobra member) returned to Paris for good.</p>
<figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1076" class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_1076" style="width: 768px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-1077" height="1024" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://cobra-museum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cobra-museum-Nieuwe-nuances-Sonja-Ferlov-Mancoba-Zonder-titel.jpg" srcset="https://cobra-museum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cobra-museum-Nieuwe-nuances-Sonja-Ferlov-Mancoba-Zonder-titel.jpg 768w, https://cobra-museum.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Cobra-museum-Nieuwe-nuances-Sonja-Ferlov-Mancoba-Zonder-titel-225x300.jpg 225w" width="768" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-1076"><i>Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Untitled, 1960, on loan from The Estate of Ferlov Mancoba</i></figcaption></figure>
<p class="p1">In contrast to the exuberance and vitality associated with
Cobra, Ferlov Mancoba sometimes worked on the same sculpture for years.
Her focus was very much on the process rather than on the end result.
She regarded her sculptures as living entities that she sent into the
world as messengers, protectors or warriors fighting against egotism and
inhumanity. For Ferlov Mancoba, art pointed the way forward, towards a
healthier and more humane society. She believed in the social importance
of art. This conviction was not only shaped by her experiences during
the Second World War, but also by her experiences as a woman.</p></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-6365134516920565372022-07-14T19:05:00.009+02:002022-07-14T19:06:05.317+02:00Global South African artist - Ernest Methuen Mancoba<div class="page-title-full-width-container" id="page-title-full-width-container">
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</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-synopsis bio-meta"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-synopsis">Synopsis: </strong>exile, artist</div><div class="views-field views-field-field-firstname"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-firstname">First Name: </strong>Ernest</div><div class="views-field views-field-field-middlename"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-middlename">Middle Name: </strong>Methuen</div><div class="views-field views-field-field-lastnamebio"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-lastnamebio">Last Name: </strong>Mancoba</div><div class="views-field views-field-field-dob"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-dob">Date of Birth: </strong>29 August 1904</div><div class="views-field views-field-field-birth-location"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-birth-location">Location of Birth: </strong>Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng)</div><div class="views-field views-field-field-dod"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-dod">Date of Death: </strong>25 October 2002</div><div class="views-field views-field-field-gender"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-gender">Gender: </strong>Male</div></li>
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Methuen Mancoba was born in Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal
(Gauteng) on 29 August 1904. From 1920 to 1924 Mancoba trained as a
teacher at the Diocesan Training College, Grace Dieu near Pietersburg
(now Polokwane, Limpopo) and received early guidance in wood carving
there from Sister Pauline CR. On completion of his course, he remained
at the College teaching Zulu until 1929.</p>
<p>In 1933, Mancoba enrolled as a student at the University of Fort
Hare. During this time, he served as the chairperson of the Literary and
Debating Societies there. In 1936, he was the caretaker of a block of
flats in Cape Town. In the following year, Mancoba was completed a BA
degree through UNISA and began teaching English at Khaiso Secondary
School in Pietersburg. His colleagues included Louis Makenna, Nimrod
Ndebele and Gerard Sekoto.</p>
<p>Although he never received formal art training, he was greatly
inspired by two fellow artists namely Lippy Lipshitz ( 1903 - 1980) and
Irma Stern ( 1894 - 1966 ). He loved sculpting and completed various
commission works for different churches. In 1938, he left South Africa
to study art in Paris.</p>
<p><a aria-label="Visit Invaluable.com" class="eHAdSb" data-ved="0CAwQjRxqFwoTCICIu-js-PgCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD" href="https://www.invaluable.com/artist/mancoba-ernest-xfsy2p0l9h/sold-at-auction-prices/" rel="noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Ernest Mancoba Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Ernest Mancoba Art Value Price Guide" class="n3VNCb KAlRDb" data-noaft="1" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/Rasmussen/80/289080/H0862-L17004927.jpg" style="height: 498.738px; margin: 0px; width: 527px;" /><span class="VSIspc" jsname="eQ3Oyb" style="margin: 0px;"></span></a></p><p>In Paris he met Danish artist Sonja Ferlov ( 1911 - 1984 ) who he
later married. He preferred to work in watercolour and only did his
first oil painting in 1940. In 1952, he stopped producing sculptures
and concentrated on painting. In 1961, he became a French citizen and
in 1994 after an absence of 56 years, he visited South Africa for the
first time for his Retrospective exhibition in Johannesburg. </p>
<p>His works found in various collections and private collections worldwide.</p>
<p>Mancoba passed away on 25 October 2002.</p>
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<div class="field--item"><p>Sack, S. (1988). <em>The Neglected Tradition</em>, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery.|Art and Ubuntu Trust. <a href="http://www.artubuntu.org/about_mancoba_9.php">About Ernest Mancoba </a>online. Available at <a href="http://www.artubuntu.org/">www.artubuntu.org</a> . Accessed on 29 August 2012|Loots A. (2001) <a href="http://www.vgallery.co.za/2001article7/vzine.htm">The Early Pioneer Artists of South Africa - Ernest Mancoba ( 1904 - )</a> from the V Gallery online. Available at <a href="http://www.vgallery.co.za/">www.vgallery.co.za</a> . Accessed on 29 August 2012</p>
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<div class="field--item"><p><a href="http://www.artubuntu.org/about_mancoba_9.php" target="_blank">About Ernest Mancoba - Art and Ubuntu Trust</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.vgallery.co.za/2001article7/vzine.htm" target="_blank">The Early Pioneer Artists of South Africa - Ernest Mancoba ( 1904 - ) 26 February 2001 by Andries Loots</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mEbNlVsk6Y&feature=youtu.be">Ernest Mancoba at Home Part 1</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbgeXQsjmBY">Ernest Mancoba at Home Part 2</a><a aria-label="Visit African Art Agenda - Tumblr" class="eHAdSb" data-ved="0CAwQjRxqFwoTCICIu-js-PgCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAP" href="https://africanartagenda.tumblr.com/page/39" rel="noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><span class="VSIspc" jsname="eQ3Oyb" style="margin: 0px;">313 × 370</span></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tquyg5tFxRw">Ernest Mancoba at Home Part 3</a></p>
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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Only when his financial circumstances became desperate did he drag himself to the easel to finish another, usually long overdue, work. One after the other, galleries dropped him. </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{72}" paraid="202203910" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Nevertheless, his work sold. -and for the past few years fetched increasingly </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">good prices</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. At an auction in March this year, Sotheby's sold one of his oils for about R40 000. The Cherie de Villiers Gallery in Rosebank, Johannesburg. the most recent to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">exhibit</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> his work, sold another of his paintings this year for R35 000. 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Every spare minute was spent at municipal libraries reading books about art.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{142}" paraid="697479816" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In 1959 art became his sole means of existence.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{149}" paraid="1545186393" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">He sold paintings at open air exhibitions in Johannesburg's Joubert Park and Zoo Lake.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{156}" paraid="149964329" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In 1961 his work was noticed by Johannesburg gallery owner Adler Fielding who included some of it in his Artists of Fame and Promise group exhibition that year.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; 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clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{170}" paraid="859357258" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Maseko's first solo exhibition was at Gallery 101 in Johannesburg in 1970.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{177}" paraid="312939317" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">His big break was a solo exhibition in Denver, Colorado, in the US in 1973. Thereafter came several more solo exhibitions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, West Germany, Israel and Canada,</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{177}" paraid="312939317" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW59145195 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{184}" paraid="1716738971" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In 1974 he and Lucky Sibiya represented Johannesburg at the Swaziland Trade Fair and won first prize.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{184}" paraid="1716738971" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In the late '70s, the art department at the University of Natal invited him to be a guest student.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">This was his only formal art training and he used the opportunity to learn silk screen printing and etching.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW59145195 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{f37d162d-907a-4665-905b-22fe96519a8d}{205}" paraid="1583061627" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Although he did a variety of things, including portraits and abstracts, Maseko is best known for his paintings of township scenes.</span><span class="EOP SCXW59145195 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; 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<h1 class="page-title page-title_long">South African artist Fikile Magadledla is born</h1></header></div><div class="main-container container js-quickedit-main-content clearfix" role="main"><div class="row"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div id="bio_pic" name="bio_pic" style="text-align: left;" title="bio_pic"><img src="http://media.withtank.com/fa41fcb2d9/fikile_portrait.jpg" /></div></div><br /><section class="col-sm-6"><div class="region region-content"><article about="/dated-event/south-african-artist-fikile-magadledla-born" class="event full clearfix node" data-history-node-id="11787" role="article"><div class="content"><div id="bio_title" name="bio_title" style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: bembostd; font-size: 48px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; line-height: 1.1em; margin: 30px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;" title="bio_title">Fikile Magadlela</div><a aria-label="Visit MutualArt" class="eHAdSb" data-ved="0CAwQjRxqFwoTCPDtvLnn-PgCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD" href="https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Lakutshon-ilanga--Where-the-Sun-Sets-/5E78D3DE55CCDB26" rel="noopener" role="link" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Fikile Magadlela | Lakutshon'ilanga (Where the Sun Sets) | MutualArt" class="n3VNCb KAlRDb" data-noaft="1" height="377" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2020_03/05/11/110005433/4c48ebe1-6ad0-4ee0-9c23-ec6fe3062d84_570.Jpeg" style="height: 361.504px; margin: 0px; width: 527px;" width="550" /></a></div><div class="content"><br style="background-color: white;" /><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Fikile grew up in a politicised home. His parents and maternal grandmother were imprisoned in the 1960s and in 1984 Fikile was also incarcerated.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">His father Arthur Magadledla, an avid reader, instilled in Fikile a lifelong interest in numerology. He allowed his toddler son to scribble-draw in his books. At the age of four Fikile was already addicted to art and one of the books, <em>Pearson’s Fortune Teller</em> by <span class="caps">PRS</span> Foli (1920) is filled with Fikile’s drawings. These drawings of human figures are remarkable. Instead of simple contours the outlines are multiple and jagged, foreshadowing the rich textures that characterise Fikile’s mature work. <em>Pearson’s Fortune Teller</em> remained in the artist’s possession throughout his life. Numerology is one of the topics dealt with in the book. Later in life Fikile became deeply indebted to the writing of the Nigerian poet, Christopher Okigbo and also <em>The Trial of Christopher Okigbo</em> by Ali Mazrui.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Fikile, the leading exponent of the principles of the Black Consciousness Movement in the visual arts in South African observed ‘Black Art is an important facet of Black Consciousness and Black artists are very conscious of their heritage’ (<em>Black Art Today</em>, 1981). Fikile focused on the beauty and dignity of people: ‘[…] there is one thing I believe in: if you draw the black man, he must be beautiful, handsome; the woman must be heavenly. Drape them with the most beautiful clothes – to wash away this whole shit of self-pity. […] I can undress a man – he must stand there naked – or undress a woman, and let her stand naked, but it’s all with pride and dignity’ (<em>Staffrider</em> 1980: 25).</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">In accordance to the call for self-assertion Fikile responded to Picasso’s signature by signing his own work by inverted writing and in 1976 he, Ben Arnold and the architect Piero Cuzzolini founded <span class="caps">SOARTA</span> (Soweto Art Association) when his exhibition was called off at the Goodman Gallery.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">At the beginning of his career he experimented with a variety of mediums, including sculpture in terra cotta and gas concrete. Eventually he chose pencil because he considered it the most challenging medium. He saved the graphite residue after sharpening his pencils and later applied the ‘dust’ to required areas either by rubbing it onto the paper with his fingers or cotton-wool, achieving the characteristic subtle effects of his skies and clouds.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">He also explained that he never questioned what he drew or painted; he merely transmitted inspiration which occurred like ‘a spontaneous combustion’. This procedure did not require preliminary sketches. Like Ezrom Legae, who encouraged him to practise art, he also found preliminary drawings stifling. He said his poems served as studies for his pictures. He believed that the essence of a piece was lost when the artist began to rely on sketches.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Though his imagery developed spontaneously, the execution of the art work seems controlled and premeditated. The rich textures of Fikile’s land and rock formations are achieved by patient mark-making and meticulous drawing evoking millennia of evolution. For him the dot is a significant element. He said a circle, the symbol of completeness, begins and ends with a dot. The line between these two dots completes a ‘journey’ when the two dots link up in a ‘big dot’. Moreover, he observed that he lost track of time while a drawing evolved. He often spent up to six months in perfecting a drawing. His deliberated mark making, exact and sound drawing undoubtedly inspired Thami Mnyeli and Ben Dikobe Martins.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The monumentality of Fikile’s images evokes timeless serenity. For him, life is manifested in the human body: the source of birth, death and rebirth. Hence: ‘Life is an eternal flow and inspires my art’. [Taken from Revisions]</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 22pt; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><b>Elza Miles</b><br /></p><div id="bio_cite" name="bio_cite" style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #58595b; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding: 4px;" title="bio_cite"><ol style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Black Art Today (exhibition catalogue) 1981, Standard Bank, Jabulani, Soweto.</li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Fikile 1980. Staffrider, volume 3, no 2, June.</li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Fikile Magadledla interviewed by Elza Miles, 2000. 20 March.</li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Photographic credit: Watson Mcoteli - Copyright © Sowetan/Sunday World</li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><em>Black Art Today</em> (exhibition catalogue) 1981, Standard Bank, Jabulani, Soweto.</li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Fikile 1980. <em>Staffrider</em>, volume 3, no 2, June.</li><li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;">Fikile Magadledla interviewed by Elza Miles, 2000. 20 March.</li></ol></div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><div class="field field--name-field-this-day-in-history-3 field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field--item"><b style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">Born</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">13 December 1950, Newclare, Johannesburg; died September 2003, Johannesburg.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">Training</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">: In his youth he was a boxer, he left school in 1969 and his job in 1973 to become a full time artist. He had no formal art training other than what he learned from other artists and from attending art workshops. In 1979 he carried out a series of drawings to promote the film Freedom Road, starring Mohammed Ali.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">Collections</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">: Gencor (now Billiton) Art Collection, The Ford Foundation, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Pretoria Art Museum, University of Fort Hare, Alice;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;"> </span><span class="caps" style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">UNISA</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #81bcb6; font-family: helveticaneulight; font-size: 15.6px;">, Pretoria; University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.</span></div><div class="field field--name-field-this-day-in-history-3 field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field--item"><br /></div><div class="field field--name-field-this-day-in-history-3 field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field--item">13 December 1952 - 2003</div>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item">Fikile
Magadlela was born on 13 December 1952 in Newclare, Johannesburg. He
was a self- taught artist, who learned and benefited greatly from his
peers. One of his mentors was Harold Jeppe, who introduced him to art
circles in Johannesburg. Most of his works are a combination of media
and can be classified as surrealistic in nature.
Magadlela was a member of and adhered to the Black Consciousness
movement led by Steve Biko. He became very well acquainted with the
leader, who encouraged him and other black people to fully express
themselves. During the eighties, Magadlela was hardy active in the arts
due to political unrest and exploitation of black artists by galleries.
It was only in 1992 that he was able to hold an exhibition. Magadlela
died in 2003.
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<div class="field--item"><p>Kuper, J., (2011), <a href="https://mg.co.za/article/2011-11-04-repatriated-struggle-work-goes-on-show" target="_blank">Repatriated 'struggle' work goes on show</a>, from Mail & Guardian, 04 November, [online], Available at <a href="https://mg.co.za" target="_blank">www.mg.co.za</a> [Accessed: 16 November 2012]|Ifa lethu, <a href="https://www.ifalethu.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68:fikile-magadledla&catid=40:artists&Itemid=84" target="_blank">Fikile Magadlela</a>, from <em>Ifa lethu, </em>[online], Available at <a href="https://www.ifalethu.org.za" target="_blank">www.ifalethu.org.za</a> [Accessed: 16 November 2012]</p><p><br /></p>
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</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-firstname"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-firstname">First Name: </strong><div class="field-content">Dumisani</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-lastnamebio"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-lastnamebio">Last Name: </strong><div class="field-content">Mabaso</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-dob"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-dob">Date of Birth: </strong><div class="field-content">20 June 1955</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-birth-location"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-birth-location">Location of Birth: </strong><div class="field-content">Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa</div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-gender"><strong class="views-label views-label-field-gender">Gender: </strong><div class="field-content">Male</div></div></li>
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Abraham Mabaso was born on 20 June 1955 in Soweto. He received his
initial basic art training at the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian
Association) in Dube in Soweto. In 1970 to 1974 he studied art further
at the Mofolo Arts Centre and then taught at the YWCA for nearly 2
years. After completing a printmaking course at Rorke’s Drift Art
School, Mabaso taught at the Mofolo Arts Centre from 1978-79. In 1980-81
he headed the Fine Art department at the Federated Union of Black
Artists (FUBA) in Newtown, Johannesburg, and continued studying
printmaking at the Witwatersrand Technikon. In 1986 he attended the New
York Triangle Workshop, which annually brought together artists from
around the world to exchange ideas and share knowledge. In 1987 he
participated in the Thupelo Workshops in Johannesburg. Mabaso is a
co-founder with Anthony Nkosi of the Hammanskraal Workshop.</p>
<p>Apart from painting, between 1980 and 1987 he taught printmaking at
the Johannesburg Art Foundation and the African Institute of Art at
Funda (Learning) Centre. Mabaso is also a musician and a runs a
recording studio in Soweto. He exhibited extensively in South Africa and
abroad (including 5 group shows in the USA).</p>
<p>Richly textured colour is foregrounded in Mabaso’s imagery, which is
infused with an eye that looks at the world with wonder. Mabaso is
deeply interested in African traditional craft and pottery work, and a
preoccupation with pattern can be identified. Rigorous with the very
process-oriented medium of printmaking, Mabaso is an artist’s artist.
Just as a drawing can be record of the mark-making process that caused
it, so Mabaso’s very tactile printmaking approach shows a creative
energy thoroughly engaged with the medium as well as the subject. An
example of this is his lithographic series <em>Stages of the Day</em>. </p>
<p><strong>Solo Exhibitions</strong></p>
<p>1973 Gallery 101, Johannesburg</p>
<p><strong>Group Exhibitions</strong><br />
1976 The Institute of Race Relations<br />
1977 University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg<br />
1979 Gallery 21, Johannesburg <br />
1983 Sguzu Print Workshop, Johannesburg <br />
1984 Market gallery, Johannesburg <br />
1985 USA 1986 Hammanskraal S.H.P, Sandton Sun <br />
1986 Triangle Artists' Workshop, USA <br />
1988 Torrensville, Australia <br />
1990 Cape Town National gallery, Zimbabwe <br />
1991 Maputo, Mozambique <br />
1993 Sound Shore Gallery, USA <br />
2000 Cape Town</p>
<p><strong>Workshops</strong><br />
1986 Triangle Artists' Workshop, USA - Thupelo Art Project, Broederstroom <br />
1987 Thupelo Art Project, Broederstroom <br />
1989 Thupelo Art Project, Broederstroom <br />
1990 Pachipamwe Workshop, Zimbabwe <br />
1991 Ujama Workshop, Mozambique<br />
1992 ART OMI, New York, USA <br />
1993 Thupelo Artists' Workshop, Cape Town</p>
<p><strong>Public Collections</strong><br />
Johannesburg Art Gallery <br />
Museum fur Volkerkunde, Frankfort, Germany <br />
Triangle Collection, Pine Plains, New York, USA <br />
Ponside Press, USA <br />
ART OMI, USA</p>
<p><strong>Community Art Projects</strong><br />
1982 - 1994 Founder & director of Sguzu Printmakers' Workshop <br />
1978 - 1979 S.A.C.C. Self Help Projects <br />
1993 Exchange programme with art teachers from Mozambique</p>
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</div></article></div></section></div></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-44088599094954901522022-07-14T01:59:00.002+02:002022-07-14T13:10:06.541+02:00Ode to Chris Van Wyk – by Zanele Mashinini <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgANFG9fJuSc8SWDEvc65Go_mnKniHdTMM7uHLT3wveFTarYoigSrYjUBMUL7A8SLrP3mXNRCDHT8d323pC3tw5B0bME423FG0gdV7cxgjHSbuX9oS8r6FF36Eoyh9KkyN38KZjkoMSTI1tVv8HXwNBJQkU6h3NZAhWo7mj-wtAo80jm11rLKa22Nsxg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="312" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgANFG9fJuSc8SWDEvc65Go_mnKniHdTMM7uHLT3wveFTarYoigSrYjUBMUL7A8SLrP3mXNRCDHT8d323pC3tw5B0bME423FG0gdV7cxgjHSbuX9oS8r6FF36Eoyh9KkyN38KZjkoMSTI1tVv8HXwNBJQkU6h3NZAhWo7mj-wtAo80jm11rLKa22Nsxg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{e5e83c99-b14d-4740-b018-f970ea0a65e4}{63}" paraid="135958220" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">From time to time, with each installment of those sharing oxygen with me turning their backs on this world. I think about heavy losses incurred by families of nations.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{e5e83c99-b14d-4740-b018-f970ea0a65e4}{63}" paraid="135958220" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">My mind, rewinds to the endearing episodic of a life that once was, and, will forever be in our mind, of both young and old</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Its inconsequential. In my case, whenever news of anybody's demise reaches me.</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">A child in me weeps uncontrollable. With part of him dying and joining a departed soul on their last journey under the gaze of the sun. Such is life!</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In short, the pain of losing a loved one, is a pain which jolt mixed emotion in my system. Because, pain of dealing with grief of one dearest, in any family, is pain of loss felt by the entire family of humanity within my circles.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Many people who pass, touch us individually </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">different w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ay</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. They leave finger prints of love, laughte</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">leaders</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">hi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">p</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In life, a mirror of one's lifespan hanging before us, with its inverse image capturing a face of death. Such a sad reflection paralyzes and left deep severe wound which may not heal even with the passage of time.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">For if you walk in the shadow of the living, you walk not far away in the shadow of the lifeless. As such, it measures that, death of any anybody is death too close of home.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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One accepts reluctantly an argument advanced which proclaims: mortal remains of our loved ones, upon transcending to the world of the dead is heeded for a better place.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; 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padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">To be reunited with their kin and kith, in order to be rested on the arable bosom of the Mighty Higher Being and live happily after.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">And, one is led to believe, albeit religiously a perpetually sold genesis, passed from one generation to the next which constructively set one's mind at bay, and make you look forward to your one-way ticket.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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One who was and is now no longer, would henceforth come only through dreams to pay visitations and disappear without giving much in terms of where they are.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">This we are led to believe is the one and the only available way in the afterlife. Mysteries of all mysteries, in instances, after going through an agonizing bereavement.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">We are console and assured our beloved ones are destined </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">res</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">id</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> in eternal bliss. 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A commonplace trait in a child in me, is to confronts paternal and maternal omnipotent beings to search for convincing answers.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The mourning baby in my heart, would want to know, matter of fa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ct</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">wha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t'</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the reason for living, if we are going to die?</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">This child never ceases to ask simple yet unanswered questions, which keeps popping u</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">p,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in the event</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; 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As if, it knows why we are born. Sa</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">for somew</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ha</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">These ambiguous yet mystical believable truth or fictions, however smartly packaged, bring with it an unbearable and burdensome illusion like death itself.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; 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line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Quite interesting, this line of thought is at the heart </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">on</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e'</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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All times this réchauffé is push down one's throat allowing no space to challenge.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Somehow, dea</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">th</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">is in need</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">f</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> redemption! How </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">it</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">opera</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">te</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> is as unpredictable as its sting. Sometimes, I wish to buy in the tired cliche propagating that, when one's name is called ones, crown awaits you on the other side.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">However, in my case I want to begrudgingly accept what the world feeds me. And, stop questioning the dictates of the natural progression of earthly explanations.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is worth acknowledging and accepting a call from the ancestral world means what it really means that you are no mor</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Perhaps, w</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">However, each time I do surrender to the whims of some teaching without any reservations. A child in me wants to understand, why if we made from the soil must we go back to the source which is the soil and disintegrate to nothingness.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Why is eternity not on earth, because those we live with who become our friends and family impact on our own lives and lea</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">a lasting leg</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">ac</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">y</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> when the curtain of their performance is pulled down and come to an end.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Leaving us the poorer and more paralyzed for life, yearning for their wisdom, which is gone foreve</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">r.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">In the event</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> o</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">f</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> death, unfortunately, whether one take to the streets, carrying placards with all sorts of demeaning slogans challenging and castigating death.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Nothing is likely to change. 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No matter how disparaging one writes about death. 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Whenever, death takes over the reign, even the pain of losing a lover seem lighter.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; 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If I were to write to death, I would run out of surreal words to describe it.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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You end up walking on a wobbling tight rope.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">One always, like the sun rising from East and setting from West, remain in limbo wherever trying to make sense of why death leaves a permanent stain on our unsoiled fabric.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">It's a foregone conclusion that from the beginning of time. Death's seasons scoop septic wounds in our system.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Death can never be said to be like a familiar winter which brings biting cold but we always look forward to embrace.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Death is never compared to the caressing summer's days which brings sweltering heat and soothing sun rays but leaves us looking forward to tomorrow.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Eat on those who play host resolutely like cancer </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-image: var(--urlSpellingErrorV2,url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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")); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nd</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> leave them daze for the rest of their lives.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Death, now and then keep on reminding me humans that respect for humanity is nonexistent. To compare death to a bully is an understatemen</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Maybe</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> this poi</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">nt</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t'</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> worth asking.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Who are you? What are you made off? Where do you hide? Why target humanity? When are you rested? When exactly are we to be desensitized to your yoke? How do we deal with the aftermath of your visitation?</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">At times I wish to buy in, in the hypothesis that nothing is forever. But, you, known as I know that your death on the one hand you are an unfair player in this game called life.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Like surreptitious snake with an insatiable appetite, your death come unannounced.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Your hunger to feed on those we love rob us of the best brains. It strips us of those we smiled with, and those we shared special moments.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">I</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t'</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> your last words which dethroned Chris Van Wyk one so beautiful with words.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">If you care to read this Ode to Chris, death, my words are dripping with disbelief. Herein is a tribute to a maestro wordsmith. Man among man who made words to dance, laughter and whisper softly in our ears.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Yes, death you have taken with you a gentle giant. It necessary to doff my hat to a fellow traveler. The late Chris Van Wyk was words, and words began to shape and define his entire world.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">He was covered with words and had the knack to brew them like potent homebrew. His words at time glistened like minerals. 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A word which offered him solace. He lived unapologetically in an environment exploding with beautiful, blessing and bull-shitting words.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Using the art of sawing with word, he knitted for his people an anti - apartheid full proof garments which was wrapped round bodies </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">of</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">men and wo</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">me</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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To many who were influenced by his words, he would remain royalty, a real king of the word.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Such was the sparks of affinity between Chris and t</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">he</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">cutting-e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">dg</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> words he so delicately and dedicatedly makes.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">He loves and invested dearly in words, for his entirely life. One would be forgiven for think Chris was born clasping words in his hands.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">These words he never once, contemplated to divorced, distance and desert them, to in pursuit another glorious career path.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">For as long as I knew Chris, his suitcase was brimful of his worldly words. His words opened for his readers the prison doors and gave us picture of torture of our brothers and sisters.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">He makes us travelled to the world that traces footsteps of our leaders. Thought his words he was able to immortalized Mandela for countless world children, of the world.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">His words offered sanctuary for those in need of forgetting their hardship and seek answers from his words. </span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">To </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">honour</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> his delicious words, Chris remained loyal to his words. Words also served him well, he also reciprocates </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">by</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">remain</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">in</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">g</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> a part of them, until death do them apart.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Chris was joined to words for life. To someone like me, Chris taught me a lesson to commit to doing what one loves unconditionally.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In my mind I imagine a scenario where Chris even as he gasps the last breadth. Holding his pen writing to his dear gods. 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His writing was a glorious church where some went to pray for a lifetime.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Paying reverence to the stream of healing flowing with sweet words until kingdom come. Chris' bold body of words, words he himself masterfully crafted, reminded us of time trapped and frozen in spaces familiar yet unfamiliar.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; 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Through his words he coordinated circumstances of those club to submission by circumstances beyond their making.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">And, through his words he comforted and championed the causes of the conscientious. His words became a canvass from which comrades in camps carefully assessed the situation in the country of their birth.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">Here we were a Chris a chapter of bliss in the dark days. His verses of hope in flushed fear in our life as we challenged the system.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">His words help use as a nation to write a script of euphoria in our triumphant moment. His deep words </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">prov</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">id</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">e</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> ammunition for activists to dance and shoot at the same time.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">But Chris lived life behind sandbag of words, firing bombardment of words, against the system of segregation. When he had disappeared in the world of world, he was fearless.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">During the most callous days of apartheid, he used litany of acidic words to fire bow and arrows tearing footprints and footsteps of our oppressor.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">He also lived in dreams and desire, loving life and was prepared through his words to risk life and limb. 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He was able build paradise through hold no barrel words. His godly like writing elicited mixed feeling on many people depending on which side you were standing.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">The late Chris' make up was cloved with words, from the top of his head to the tip of his toes. Seldom do one encounter someone whose bloodstream flows with words in the best and worst of times.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">In the world of words Chris was beautiful. Outside the world of words Chris was a man of few words, in my own assessments.</span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Althou</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">gh</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">i</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">t'</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> been years I had exchange pleasantry with Chris Van Wyk, his words reached me anywhere and everywhere I was holed up.</span></span><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW18876859 BCX0" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{cc205b71-b1c2-459d-a7a0-e164233d5046}{180}" paraid="975763259" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="LineBreakBlob BlobObject DragDrop SCXW18876859 BCX0" face="WordVisiCarriageReturn_MSFontService, Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br class="SCXW18876859 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; white-space: pre;" /></span><span class="TextRun SCXW18876859 BCX0" data-contrast="none" face="Calibri, Calibri_EmbeddedFont, Calibri_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #201f1e; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-US">His books were always in my company. For those of Chris' fans who loved to hide behind his words. 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border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-label" style="border: 0px; color: #be2e2e; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Name:</div><div class="x_field-item x_even" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Duke</div></div></div><div class="x_field x_field-name-field-lastnamebio x_field-type-text x_field-label-inline x_clearfix" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-label" style="border: 0px; color: #be2e2e; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Position format:</div><div class="x_field-item x_even" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8245</div></div></div><div class="x_field x_field-name-field-gender x_field-type-text x_field-label-inline x_clearfix" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-label" style="border: 0px; color: #be2e2e; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gender:</div><div class="x_field-item x_even" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Female</div></div></div><div class="x_field x_field-name-field-birth-location x_field-type-text x_field-label-inline x_clearfix" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-label" style="border: 0px; color: #be2e2e; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Location Of Birth:</div><div class="x_field-item x_even" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Orlando east, Soweto, South Africa</div></div></div><div class="x_field x_field-name-field-dob x_field-type-text x_field-label-inline x_clearfix" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; clear: both; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; overflow-x: hidden; padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 200px;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; float: left; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-label" style="border: 0px; color: #be2e2e; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Date Of Birth:</div><div class="x_field-item x_even" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1943-06-06T00:00:00</div></div></div><div class="x_field x_field-name-field-synopsis x_field-type-text-long x_field-label-hidden" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-item x_even" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Artist</p></div></div></div><div class="x_section x_field x_field-name-body x_field-type-text-with-summary x_field-label-hidden" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(247, 247, 247); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-item x_odd" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">Duke Ketye was born was born on 6 June 1943 in Orlando east, Soweto. Ketye attended Ematsheni Primary School in Orlando East, Soweto. He completed Standard VII in King William\'s Town and matric at St Francis College in Mariannhill. In I960 and 1961 he attended Lumko Art School in Queenstown and studied under Sister Pientia Selhorst C.P.S. He then moved to Mariannhill where he continued to study with Sister Pientia and Sister Johanna Sen until 1965. While there he was a awarded a bursary for a correspondence study course through the Famous Art School in Connecticut, USA. Between 1965 and 1968 he worked at Jads Badge Factory and then at Flora Ann ceramic factory and George Goch in Jeppe, Transvaal. In 1968 Ketye began painting and sculpting full-time. </p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">In 1970 he moved to Durban. In 1977 Ketye renovated some unused buildings at Mariannhill and founded the Mariannhill Art Centre, a gallery and studio space. Ketye ran the Centre and beginning in 1978 held group exhibitions of work by Rorke's Drift artists and the Vukuzenzele Weaving Workshop artists and one-person exhibitions of work by artists such as Michael Zondi and Ruben Xulu. Between 1981 and 1983 Ketye lived in Port Edward with potters Steve and Angelique Kirk where he learned about pottery and ceramic sculptures. He then went to Venda where he opened a screen print factors' at Makhado. Ketye's work has been exhibited at the U2 African Arts Festival and he has also served as a judge for the exhibition.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Exhibitions:</strong> 1965: DAM (Bantu Inter Faith Art Exhibition). 1968: Mona Lisa Art Gallery, Johannesburg (solo). 1971: NSA, Durban (solo). 1972: NSA, Durban (three-person exhibition). 1973: Pretoria; New York, USA; London, UK (group exhibition sponsored by the Bantu Investment Corporation). 1975: Art Society, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC, USA (solo). 1977: NSA, Durban (three-person with Sokhaya Nkosi and Michael Ntuli). Pietermaritzburg (Living Arts Festival ”” group). 1980: NSA, Durban (solo). 1981: Carlton Gallery Johannesburg (group). 1984: Venda Sun Hotel, Thohoyandou (VhaVenda Art Exhibition). 1986: FUBA (group). Ditike ”” The Craft House of Venda (group).</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Commissions:</strong> 1974: Wood panels commissioned by Evan Mackintosh and Associates, Architects for municipal buildings and library in Walvis Bay. 1975-6: Wood panel for Natal Blood Transfusion Service, near Pinetown, Natal. Wood panel for Seminary College at Umtata. Stations of the Cross for a Roman Catholic Church at Basotho Qwa Qwa near Harrismith. 1978: Mural paintings for the Glebelands Beer Hall near Durban. 1979: Illustrations for Zulu Bible, Indaba Enhle ka Nkulunkulu (The Good News of God).</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Collections:</strong> KC; UZ.</p></div></div></div><div class="x_field x_field-name-field-ref-str x_field-type-text-long x_field-label-above" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-items" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="x_field-label" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" />References</div><div class="x_field-item x_even" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">• Sack, S. (1988). <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Neglected Tradition</em>, Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery.</div></div></div></div></div></h3></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-68481285088076033832022-07-13T19:21:00.001+02:002022-07-13T19:23:14.466+02:00Orbituary: Hamba Kahle Duke Ketye (1943 - 2002)<div class="x_heading" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 51) !important; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Orbituary: Hamba Kahle Duke Ketye</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOeUWVw8OxgBjr0Y4-JwDlzr7v_E2GrjncSeuYyKq6PxpKxXKK3Ts2wryEzTmuWeQtnfHRrWFXFsF-EyrXRQ4Hjai7tA47oOLg6umlAs7ae7LsN5UtVadskPfWVO6xoKl3gTJcWap99kBzqUT4hiFTIZKfUB6olwu0VHacFe2b0_imy29v-RXZVukuRA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOeUWVw8OxgBjr0Y4-JwDlzr7v_E2GrjncSeuYyKq6PxpKxXKK3Ts2wryEzTmuWeQtnfHRrWFXFsF-EyrXRQ4Hjai7tA47oOLg6umlAs7ae7LsN5UtVadskPfWVO6xoKl3gTJcWap99kBzqUT4hiFTIZKfUB6olwu0VHacFe2b0_imy29v-RXZVukuRA" width="175" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">Well known artist, sculptor and art teacher Duke Ellington Sipho Ketye died on Wednesday the 17th July when he suffered a fatal stroke.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">He was born in Orlando, Soweto in June 1943 and after completing his schooling in King Williams Town attended the Lumko Art Centre in Queenstown. He later transferred to Saint Francis College in Marianhill, Natal and while studying there won a bursary to study by correspondence at The Famous Art School in Connecticut, USA.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">Duke participated in numerous exhibitions throughout his career, his first solo exhibition in 1968 at The Mona Lisa Gallery, Johannesburg and from 1972 - 74 he was part of a group exhibition that was shown in Johannesburg, Pretoria, New York and London.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">In 1975 he was invited for a solo exhibition by The Art Society of The International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and in 1989 he exhibited alongside the likes of Winston Saoli, Durant Sihlali and Speelman Mahlangu in a group exhibition held at The Oglethorpe University Art Gallery in Atlanta, USA. In 1995 he was chosen to be one of twenty one artists from eleven African countries, the USA and Britain to partake in a Sculpture Workshop under the auspices of the Breton Hall Centre for Applied Studies in Sculpture in Yorkshire, UK.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">His last exhibition was a group exhibition at Go-Ra Gallery, Parkhurst in May this year, alongside two stalwarts in Naama Nothmann and Orlando de Almeida.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">Although best known for his religious sculpture, for which he received numerous commissions, he was also commissioned in 1972 by the South West African Arts Commission to make a set of wooden panels depicting life in Namibia. These panels are today displayed in the Walvis Bay public library and city hall. In 1975 he produced wooden panels on commission from the Natal Blood Transfusion Service in Pinetown and recently, 2000, was commissioned by Monte Casino, Fourways to do a number of carved panels for the main entrance doors depicting the four seasons and the four elements. Duke was influential in helping younger artists realize their talents in his capacity as art teacher at St Francis College, Marianhill from 1976 - 78 and later in the years 1983 - 85 at Khalaba Art and Silkscreen, Venda.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">He leaves behind his wife Meisie and five children who live in Orlando, Soweto.</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;">Submitted by the Go-Ra Gallery in Parkhurst, Johannesburg</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, verdana; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-74892110030062093662022-06-10T13:03:00.006+02:002022-07-14T02:41:24.961+02:00Zanele Mashinini - the greatness that would not yelp in pain but soldier on<p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">ZANELE Mashinini (1962-2021) was
a polymath.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">He painted artworks of protest,
scripted stage plays of dissent, wrote
poetic verses of defiance, designed
Struggle-era rally posters, led campaigns against the HIV/Aids stigma,
founded entities to advance the careers
of fellow visual artists, and partook in
progressive political activism to end
apartheid: an avowed dedication to
the creative arts as a pillar of cohesive
societal renewal, ergo, an artist.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Encouraged in his salad days by
his working-class parents, especially
his mother Ma Moloi, to pursue his
artistic inclination and talent, Mashinini’s 2018 prose-poem, </span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Women’s Month
Anthem</span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">, posted on his blog – http://
zanelemashinini.blogspot.com/2018/
– in praise of the dames, reads: “Greetings Queen Mothers! How do I speak
to the breasts? Suckled to a point of no
return, yet giving and giving on my
demand, because your beautiful figure
has been anything but a workhorse,
light to those in search of illumination.
Happy Women’s Day every day.”
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">The young Mashinini, who was
educated in Soweto at the AB Xuma
Primary School and later at Orlando
High School in his teen years, was
influenced by a variety of eminent
artists, among them Gerard Sekoto,
Fikile Magadlela and Basil Baqwa,
who, in the 1970s, was approached
by Mashinini’s grandmother to coach
the then young shoot in the science of
the creative arts, wrote Lehlohonolo
Lehana for an online publication, </span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Full
View</span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">In a December 4, 2019, article,
“The life and struggles of artist Zanele
Mashinini,” the artist told Lehana that
all of his work was guided by a simple
philosophy: “If others carry guns to
challenge the diabolic status quo. I
carry a more potent armoury: my art.”
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">The Mashinini family home was
a short walk from the Donaldson
Orlando Community Centre (DOCC),
in Orlando East, Soweto, which was
then teeming with artistic activities.
Fortuitously, the United States Infor-
mation Services library helped quench
Zanele Mashinini’s quest for knowledge as he plunged his nose into the
authored works.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Mashinini navigated his way
through the years to receive instruction in visual arts, creative writing,
graphic design, photojournalism,
journalism and communication, and
Aids management, after which he
shared his knowledge and skill when
he tutored children in visual arts and
drama in Soweto.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">He blossomed as a fine artist, with
exhibitions in Soweto, Alexandra,
Mthatha, Cape Town, and then on
to the Ivory Coast, Germany, France,
United Kingdom, United States and
Portugal.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Yet, even as a celebrated artist and
activist among his peers, a revered
leader of his generation, particularly
in the arts, he was much focused on
the elevation of black South Africans
above the Dickensian triple challenge
of poverty, suppression, and privation,
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">as he remained that life force of which
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in </span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Silas
Marner </span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">(1861) referenced as “the old
echo that lingers and refuses to be
drowned”.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Art was Mashinini’s weapon, as
political activism through art was his
commitment.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">As we commemorate the Soweto
June 16 student uprisings, activist art-
ists such as Mashini will be remem-
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">bered as having played a pivotal role
in our liberation struggle at a very
tender age.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">His artistic design skills enabled
him to employ his craft, in the 1980s,
in the design of anti-apartheid pro-
motional material for grassroots
organisations. These included labour
federations, underground political
organisations, youth development
associations and the Release Mandela
Campaign. He also scripted the lyrics
to the </span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Vuka Africa </span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">single that featured
about three hundred musicians, as well
as the design of a South African Post
Office stamp that celebrated the 1996
Africa Cup of Nations.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">His alma mater, Orlando High
School inducted Mashinini into its
Alumni Roll of Honour.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Zanele Mashinini’s younger
brother, Nume Mashinini, in remembrance of his sibling said: “I have never
seen Zanele without a pen and paper
since the days when we were young
boys.”
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Nume said his brother was “very
unconventional” in that: “He lived
his life through the prism of art, a
true artist.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">“When Zanele was about 15 years
old and I was three years younger, in
the 1970s, he showed us a portrait
of Nelson Mandela (South Africa’s
first democratically elected president
who was persona non grata with the
apartheid regime at the time) that he
painted.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">“Where he got the picture of a
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">banned individual, we didn’t
know. My parents got such a
fright, they hid his painting
materials. Zanele then used
actual coal to paint his art-
works, which I thought was
quite innovative.”
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">And Mashinini had a
naughty streak.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">“He painted cartoons of
relatives who visited our home,
complete with conversation bub-
bles of who said what to whom,
which was really funny to read,”
said Nume.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">“He (Zanele) did a lot of things in
art: poetry, as an actor in stage plays,
fine arts, even writing,” said his long-
time mentor and friend, the graphic
artist and art teacher, Soweto-based
Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi, who, while a
graphic designer for the Ravan Press’
</span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt; font-style: italic;">Staff Rider</span><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">, designed, in the pre-1994
Struggle-era, the title covers of emi-
nent authors such as Can Themba and
Mtutuzeli Matshoba.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">In spite of their “about 20 years”
age difference, Nhlabatsi said he
shared with Mashinini a camaraderie
and professional understanding from
when Mashinini was still a teen fasci-
nated with all things art. “I met Zanele
when he was about 14 years old.”
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Nhlabatsi said when, with
anti-apartheid activist and publishing
editor Kevin Humphrey, they started
an NGO, Graphic Equalizer, for youth
to be trained in graphic design, he
invited Zanele to the programme,
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<p><span style="font-family: ProximaNovaCond; font-size: 10pt;">The Clock, by Zanele Mashinini.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">which was based in Braamfontein
(Johannesburg).
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">“We designed promotional mate-
rial for the ANC and the trade unions,
around 1985, mostly activists connected to the ANC, PAC and the Black
Consciousness Movement.” They were
compelled to shut their doors due
to incessant police raids, and Kevin
(Humphrey) then left the country for
Britain.
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<p><span style="font-family: 'StoneSerif'; font-size: 9.000000pt;">Though death intervened – leiomyosarcoma cancer, last year, November, about three months after his 59th
birthday on August 2, before Mashinini could complete the entire stretch of
his life’s mission – he is remembered as
a great, yet humble, polymath whose
A.D. is worthy of the pen of history. </span></p>
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</div><p><br /></p>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-76539331601609978532021-11-13T20:17:00.006+02:002021-11-13T20:46:59.756+02:00Zanele Mashinini Ndodana in memory of Malume Delane Daylight Mashinini and MaMloyi<p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><b>Zanele Peter Mashinini - ZanMah</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH8qkoGvKk_xjzo5l6cRg4pnu9ykt8_71CO35gn0-MssoA57y1RY5dVx1P8CJzzNeGFwz6Ye2xQswW4BeL2rCv6KNBR2a_dBu30IaCZGT0uy-byDntp2Q_OLQWB8ulfW-KamzrDkaVSqkF/s1280/ZanMash+Image+2755.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="914" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH8qkoGvKk_xjzo5l6cRg4pnu9ykt8_71CO35gn0-MssoA57y1RY5dVx1P8CJzzNeGFwz6Ye2xQswW4BeL2rCv6KNBR2a_dBu30IaCZGT0uy-byDntp2Q_OLQWB8ulfW-KamzrDkaVSqkF/w687-h914/ZanMash+Image+2755.jpeg" width="687" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><b>Ndodana in memory of Malume Delane Daylight Mashinini and MaMloyi</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ngikhumbula ngihlangana naye Orlando East e-Circleni duze nakwa Kopane Funeral Parlour, kulama-shops are opposite. Ngikhumbula my twin cousin brothers u-Bra Sam no Zakes bebevule (Hair salon) indawo yoku lungisa izinwele ye-fashion during the period ye popular S-Curl elokshini which was first promoted by Felicia Mabuza Suttle from the the USA. U-ZanMash wafika kune-Free promotion ehamba ne-group yama friends akhe. Waba nenhlanhla wathola ke naye S-Curl treatment yezinwele zakhe ngoba bezizinkulu futhi zizinhle. [kanti i-family nje inezinwele ezinhle]</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ukumbona kwami wangikhumbuza amazingly u-Malume wami owashona ngisemncane u-Adam Mashinini [structuraly or i-Physic yakhe i-comical and cartoonish njengawe ZanMash] e-Bloemfontein – nangempela ngathola ukuthi usiyihlobo sami ngo-Mama wami u-Nomaseko Mashinini. U-Adam uye owangi introdusa eku-understandeni ukufa because ngangicala ukubona abantu abadala bekhala and I was confused as umntwana. Later from time to time sasihlangana njalo mangise Orlando East. Ngaze ngaya nasekhaya ukuyohlangana no-Malume uDelane Daylight Mashinini no-Malumekazi uma-Mloyi. Bajabula kakhulu ukuthi sazane nokubonana.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ekuhambeni kwesikhathi sabuye sahlangana - u-ZanMash seka interested ku-Art ne-Poetry kanye ne-Theatre nothando lo-Music kanye ne-Photography futhi besi jwayele ukuhlangana kwezom-Mzabalazo. Later wangitshela ngomfowabo u-Minus owayese-exile, ebased e-Swaziland. Owahamba ngo-1976. Saze sahamba komunye unyaka sayohlangana naye ekhaya kwa-Mahlanya eLobamba. Lapho owahlanga nobaba u-Malizandla Nhlabatsi kanye nomndeni wasekhaya. U-ZanMash kanye nomfowabo u-Nuwe be-b busy bebhala nomfowabo omdala yena u-Minus osewashona ngenxa yezoMzabalazo – ngiyathemba izopublishwa kungekudala ezoba isikhumbuzo.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ekuhambeni kwesikhathi lapha eMzansi nami ngangi busy ngoku-pruducer ama-artworks for Raven Press eyayi publisher i-Staffrider imagazine eyayi supporter umphakathi owawuthanda ukubhala i-Protest poerty kanye nemibhalo yoMzabalazo. Ama-editor kwakungu-Jaki Seroke kanye no-Mothobi Moutloase kanye ne Director uMike Kirkwood. Nami kelapho ngahlangana no Kevin Humprey owasuggester ukuthi siqale i-Graphic Studio eyoku-producer izincwadi ezazishiqilelwa yiyo Raven Press. Sayiqalake sayibiza ngokuthi i-Graphic Equaliser lapho esa–sebenzisana no-Andy Mason a cartoonist, Reedwaan Vally owaba yi-Typesetter kanye Caroline Cullinan. Ezinye iznhlanganiso ebesisebenzisana nazo yilezi [The Release Mandela Campaign, SACC, New Nation, SACHED Trust, Learn & Teach, various Workers Unions, Student Organistions, Black Conciousnes Movements, Africanist organisations and Weekly Mail to name just a few grassroots organisations].</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ngenxa yokuqina kwezamaPhoyisa e-Apartheid bekunzima ukwenza imali engasilingana sonke, babesibheke njalo ngehlo-loKhozi. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ekuhambeni kwesikhathi sayishintsha iGraphic Equaler sayenza indawo yokufundisa ama-up and coming artists amancane nge Graphic design. Umfundi wethu wokuqala kwaba uMpikayipheli Figlan, kwalandela uZanele Mashinini kanye no-Jasper Galela. Ekuhambeni kwesikhathi ngabuyela e-SACHED Trust lapho engagisembenza khona kudala. Ekuqedeni ukufunda uMpikayipheli Figlan wathola umsebenzi e-SABC then laba-ababili bangilandela baya e-SACHED Trust. Lapha ke wathola indlela yoku-supporter ifamily yakhe encane ngoba ubese eshadile.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">U-Zanele e-SACHED Trust waye muntu osiza kakhulu kwezo-sebenzi kanti waye thumeka kalula – ahands on. Ngangimcela ezikhathini eziningi eziningi ukuthi ayongilandela abantwana bami ababe funda e-Morning Side e-Red Hill. Indodana yami encane yayifanele iyothwasa Lusikisiki e-Eastern Cape bude budeze nase Magwa falls [not far from the Eastern sea Coast [Wild Coast Region]. Indawo yakhona ayinama Taxi therefore kuhanjwa ngezinyawo for roughly two and half hours and having to cross two rocky rivers – wehla intaba uhamba phakathi ehlathini [icellphone network ayikho]. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Abafana namantombazane bakhona kuba yibo ama-porter abathwala izimpahla zakho bakukhaphe ukuya nokubuya. Kulaba abathanda insango yindawo abangayijabulela ngoba imila yonke indawo nasemahlathini. Namaphoyisa awazihluphi ngokuyobabopha ngoba angalahleka emahlathini. U-Zanele ukhaphe indodana yami three times ukuyakhona. Mina ngiye kanye kuphela ngoba ukuhamba ama-hours angaka kunzima. Laphaya mawuzo-Lobola izinxoxo sezi hambe kahle – nibuyela emuva banipha isaka lonke lensango. Ngikhumbula i-Commander ye-SANDF [South African National Defence Force] yayiyoLobola yazi thola isekingeni ngaleso simo ngoba bamupha isaka leNsango waxakeka ukuthi uzolenza njani mayebuyele khaya kuma Roadblocks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ngenxa yesimo seze Politiki kwafika [ama-negotiations] isikhathi la amakhehla ayevalelwe e-Robben Island akhululwa njengo Rolihlahla Mandela kanye no Walter Sisulu nabanye kwaba ne-CODESA emva kwalokho. Abatshala izimali ama-funding partners ba-overseas base-bayanciphisa ukusiza ngezimali kuma NGO ngoba bethi inkululeko seyifikile. Ngalokho I-Sached Trust yavalwa sehlukana lapho mina ngaya Maskew Miller Longman yena waya eDepartment of Health kwi-AIDS Unit lapho asebenza ngokuzimisela okukhulu. Ekuhambeni kwesikhathi sabuye sahlanga masengisebenza e-Gauteng Premiers Office kwi-period ka-President Thabo Mbeki kanye no-Sam Shilowa lapho esasebenzisana futhi kahle kakhulu.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">U-Zanele esikhathini esiningi waye ngumuntu onokunyamalala. Uma umbuza ukuthi bowukuphi athi bengise-Mozambique or a Cape Town or bengise-Zimbabwe ngiyo Thwasela ubungoma. Anyamalale futhi athi yayi ngise Siluma View nakhona ngisaqhubeka nezinto zedlozi. Maye nginikile i-address ngiye ngiyomhlola. Wabaluncedo kakhulu kumfothu omncane owaye phuma ukuyofunda e-Kenya enezinkinga zoMzabalazo. Kwesinye isikhathi athule du ungazi ukuthi uyomfunela laphi.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">Ngakwezenhlala kahle waye umuntu enezonkinga zomoya njengawo wonke umuntu ezimenza ukuthi abe umuntu ongathi uthanda ukuzula nokunyamalala. Emva kokushona kwadadewabo uKhosi wanyamalala waya Durban lapho aye sebenzisana nabathandi bezama-Museums kanye nezihambelana ne-Art ababizwa ngokuthi Phansi Museum Trust. Kulapho ke ukugula kuyekwamfica khona kwaze kwa thatha impilo yakhe sisa linde lukhulu kuye.</span></p><div><br /></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-64687371833498747282021-04-01T14:36:00.000+02:002021-04-01T14:36:29.483+02:00<header style="-webkit-text-stroke: 0.001px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px;"><h1 style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.001px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Africa South <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Art Initiative</span></span></h1><h1 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.001px; background-color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.5rem;"><span style="color: white;">Broadening the ‘Black Consciousness Aesthetic’: Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi’s illustrations for Staffrider, 1979-1981</span></span></h1><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVF7tEhtiV39Ft-Ex6xWrWW9TpsKO1-7lHaaLf-ekMzSBb9-UPIFvBmTEvjiMQiRvSUz_xeBPIHaQ9eNikpSkgH82MxnsiyyQh5i-2NtkE4WAagYIQ1H1-5yB8zCnEs77JEmZ8X6y8oBKz/s850/Staffrider+cover+Vol.+2+No.+2+1979.+Eye+article+on+arts.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: white;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="850" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVF7tEhtiV39Ft-Ex6xWrWW9TpsKO1-7lHaaLf-ekMzSBb9-UPIFvBmTEvjiMQiRvSUz_xeBPIHaQ9eNikpSkgH82MxnsiyyQh5i-2NtkE4WAagYIQ1H1-5yB8zCnEs77JEmZ8X6y8oBKz/w641-h578/Staffrider+cover+Vol.+2+No.+2+1979.+Eye+article+on+arts.tiff" width="641" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.001px; text-align: justify;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.001px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>Posted on:</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0.001px; 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padding: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">in <a href="https://asai.co.za/category/word-view-authors/deidre-pretorius/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.9; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-transform: capitalize; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Deidre Pretorius</a>, <a href="https://asai.co.za/category/word-view/on-artists/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.9; outline: none; padding: 0px; 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background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">By Deirdre Pretorius </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi, born in April of 1954, contributed illustrations to the anti-apartheid literary magazine <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider, </em>from 1979 to 1987, under the shortened name “Mzwakhe”. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[1]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</a> His illustrations appeared from the first issue of the second volume in 1979, until the fourth issue of the sixth volume in 1987. During this time, his illustrations graced three covers and he contributed over seventy images to accompany short stories, extracts from books, poems, plays and other texts by well-known authors such as Es’kia Mphahlele, Njabulo Ndebele, Mothobi Mutloatse, Chris van Wyk, Mongane Wally Serote and Andries Oliphant. </span></span></p><span style="color: white;"><span id="more-21760" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">However, the one author whose work he illustrated most frequently was Mtutuzeli Matshoba, a “mainstay prose writer” during the first few years of <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider’s</em> existence, contributing virtually uninterrupted from the second issue of the first volume in 1978, until the second issue of the fourth volume in 1981. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[2]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</a> Like Nhlabatsi, Matshoba was born in Soweto. He says:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(120, 193, 207); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“(I) reflect through my works life on my side of the fence, the black side … so that I may say: “These were the events which shaped the Steve Biko’s and the Solomon Mahlangus, and the many others…”’</em> <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[3]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</a></span></p></blockquote><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21761" height="785" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1.jpg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1.jpg 508w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1-194x300.jpg 194w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/1-129x200.jpg 129w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="508" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cover Illustration<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Mtutuzeli Matshoba, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Call Me Not a Man, </em>(Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1979).</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In January 1979, a collection of seven short stories by Matshoba was published under the title <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Call Me Not a Man,</em> containing some of the stories which had appeared in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> during the previous year. Nhlabatsi illustrated the cover of <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Call Me Not a Man</em>, and over the next two years, his illustrations accompanied extracts from these short stories, as well as other writings by Matshoba, which appeared in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em>.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">With the exception of one, all the images illustrating Matshoba’s work are executed in a similar style, which Nhlabatsi ceased to use in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> when Matshoba no longer contributed to the magazine. The <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Call Me Not a Man</em> cover is the prototype of this style, and is characterised by solid, clearly delineated figurative forms, modelled with dense line work and cross hatching, generally in pen and ink. This creates a strong interplay of shadows and highlights, set against areas of flat, white negative space. Further characteristics of the style demonstrated by this cover include the focus on a centrally placed portrait of an inscrutable black man, the inclusion of graphic arrow elements, and the extreme contrast in scale between figurative objects. In this case, an enormous fist is placed behind the portrait. Nhlabatsi commented to me that he “illustrated the raised fist of protest holding a pen and paintbrush, to depict Mtutuzeli’s form of protest through his artistic writing style.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[4]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[4]</a> The presence of the black fist is an overt and distinct reference to Black Consciousness, and such references appear to varying degrees in his illustrations for Matshoba. This is not surprising given Mike Vaughan’s observation that “Black Consciousness finds a pervasive cultural assertion” in Matshoba’s stories, <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[5]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[5]</a> and Rob Gaylard’s view that the stories in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Call Me Not a Man</em> “have an obvious politicising and conscientising function, and clearly reflect a Black Consciousness ethos.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[6]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[6]</a> Nhlabatsi himself was also influenced by Black Consciousness ideas.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Consciousness</em> </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Judy Seidman and Andy Mason have commented on the influence of Black Consciousness on Nhlabatsi, <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[7]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[7]</a> with Mason asserting that his illustrations “effortlessly exuded the ethos of Black Consciousness.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[8]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[8]</a> Black Consciousness within the South African context refers to a political ideology which encourages black people, considered to include everyone racialised under apartheid, to become conscious of their shared oppression, with the aim of creating solidarity, conceiving ideas collectively, and taking action independently, without the contribution of whites. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[9]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[9]</a> It emerged from the ranks of black university students during the late 1960s, under the leadership of Steve Biko, of the South African Students’ Organization (SASO), which was founded in 1969. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[10]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[10]</a> These students were inspired by liberation movements, and anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, which were occurring worldwide. They were also inspired by their reading of banned material, particularly by Amilcar Cabral and Frantz Fanon, with Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton’s <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America</em> being extremely influential too. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[11]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[11]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nhlabatsi’s thinking was shaped by furious reading and discussion of books, which he also did in his working environment at Ravan Press – the publishers of <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em>. Ravan’s offices in Johannesburg served as a meeting place for nascent writers, poets, photographers, illustrators and fine artists, who brought their work for possible selection in the publication. He bought and exchanged books, and read circulating banned books, building up a large collection, which included many works by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, as well as by South African novelists. He also read Biko’s writing and at Ravan, met musician and poet Eugene Skeef, who had been a close friend of Biko’s, and who frequently spoke about him. He was also friendly with the visual and graphic artist Thami Mnyele, who he knew as part of a group of young artists from all over South Africa, who met at Ravan or at events such as jazz festivals and art exhibitions, to exchange ideas.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">In an article written for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em>, Nhlabatsi expressed concern about the absence of contact between the artist and the black community and the pressure on artists to earn money. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[12]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[12]</a> However, he did laud the emerging practice at the time of having art exhibitions, sometimes accompanied by poetry readings, “deep in the heart of the black communities, not in town where it becomes something irrelevant to the environment.” In this article, his criticism of the structural inequalities in South Africa, emphasis on contact between the community and the artist, expression of the need for art education, and search for historical reference material about black art in South Africa, all point towards his alignment to Black Consciousness. His working approach from the late 1970s, is largely congruent with the broad principles of Black Consciousness in the arts, as identified by Seidman. She lists these as the need for: self-expression, to produce work about one’s own experiences and interests, and those of one’s community, to employ the styles and artistic vocabulary of one’s community, and to define the audience for one’s message. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[13]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[13]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Shannen Hill identifies the cultural components of Black Consciousness in South Africa as revolving around “the pride, beauty, strength, and humanity of black cultures,” and these aspects are expressed by Nhlabatsi through the illustration style which he developed for Matshoba’s writing. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[14]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[14]</a> Nhlabatsi’s illustrations contribute to an understanding of the formal diversity in visual expressions of Black Consciousness during the late 1970s and early 1980s. His work moves beyond more typical expressions like formalised visual art or repetitive protest graphics. It instead includes illustration and comics influenced by popular culture.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This contribution is demonstrated through a close reading of a selection of Nhlabatsi’s <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> illustrations for Matshoba’s writing, starting with the single illustration that is not executed in his previously described typical style. This is the illustration which accompanies an excerpt from the story <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To Kill a Man’s Pride</em>. </span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21763" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2-979x1024.jpg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2-979x1024.jpg 979w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2-287x300.jpg 287w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2-768x803.jpg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2-1469x1536.jpg 1469w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2-191x200.jpg 191w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2-1170x1224.jpg 1170w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2.jpg 1481w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="979" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Untitled</em> (etching)<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Mtutuzeli Matshoba,<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>“To Kill a Man’s Pride”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 3:1, (1980), 4.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The extract from <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To Kill a Man’s Pride </em>is narrated in the first person, and relays the time-consuming, tedious and humiliating experience of the author, at the hands of callous apartheid bureaucrats at the central pass office in Johannesburg. While the image illustrating this story was not created specifically for it, the desolate, tortured and alienating atmosphere it conveys is well-suited to the tone of the narrative. </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The image is a reprint of a work by Nhlabatsi from his student days at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, which he attended from 1976 to 1977. Before this, he received art training from the Jubilee Art Centre from 1969 to 1972, and the Mofolo Art Centre from 1970 to 1971. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[15]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[15]</a> Nhlabatsi acknowledged this image as being influenced by the surrealist Salvador Dali, particularly in his merging of a clock and man’s face. Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin have interpreted this image as suggesting social dysfunction in which “the grotesque vista seems to threaten the norms of civil society,” and commented that it has “a surrealist quality reminiscent of the works of Fikile.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[16]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[16]</a> Hill considers Fikile Magadlela (1954–2003) as the epitome of Black Consciousness art of the 1970s, expressing Black Consciousness ideals through superbly drawn poetic and political works. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[17]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[17]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Hill takes issue with the interpretation of the work of early Black Consciousness artists as ‘African surrealists’ arguing that “these artists actually visualized Black Consciousness — they re-presented it for our contemplation.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[18]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[18]</a> The honoring of origins is visualized in their work through figures growing from landscapes or free floating, shown in dignified poses, “often in communal groupings.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[19]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[19]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Hill identifies the development of a ‘Black Consciousness aesthetic’ in the work of black artists working between Johannesburg and Pretoria during the early 1970s. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[20]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[20]</a> She views the work of Nhlabatsi’s contemporaries Thami Mnyele and Fikile Magadlela, who both also contributed to <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em>, and Motlhabane Mashiangwako and Lefifi Tladi as exemplary of this style. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[21]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[21]</a> These artists’ work during the 1970s, were characterised by depictions of their subjects in transitory states, where human figures blend with their backgrounds, prompting the comparisons of their work to surrealism. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[22]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[22]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nhlabatsi interacted frequently with Mnyele, Fikile and Matsemela Manaka during the 1970s, and although he appreciated their work, he had a different focus:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(120, 193, 207); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“… you come to art with your own mood – my focus was on illustration … Black people cannot afford art, the only way to reach them is through graphics, publications. With skills that you learn in graphics, you can go back to art and make things that people can afford. I could reach a larger audience – speak to a community audience</em>.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[23]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[23]</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">He also explained, “I liked graphics, so when I did a thing I wanted it to work and it must illustrate a thought … other guys like Thami and Fikile were more ‘arty.’”</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">His preference for graphics and need to earn an income, lead him to move from mainly being active as a visual artist and art teacher during the late 1970s, to practicing as a graphic artist – his preferred way of describing himself. He learned from Mnyele that he was leaving his position at the South African Committee for Higher Education (Sached) and consequently applied to the organisation, where he was employed first from 1979 to 1981, and then again, from 1986 to 1993. At Sached he had the opportunity to develop his comic and cartooning style.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Educational comics</span></span></em></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Sached was a Johannesburg-based nongovernmental organisation, which was initially established in 1959 to offer London University courses by correspondence, but later shifted to focus on secondary education and upgrading black teachers. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[24]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[24]</a> It was funded by local and European charities and businesses, and offered alternatives to state education. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[25]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[25]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">At Sached, Nhlabatsi created illustrations for educational publications, including <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upbeat</em> magazine, a monthly magazine for school children, which provided opportunities for comic strip work. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[26]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[26]</a> His serialised monthly comic strip for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upbeat</em>, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Down Second Avenue</em>, based on Es’kia Mphahlele’s autobiographical novel, was published in 1988, as the first title in Sached’s <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People’s College Comics</em> series. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[27]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[27]</a> He also illustrated Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Weep Not Child</em> and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Romance at Riverside High</em> by Chris van Wyk, which were serialised in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upbeat</em> as well. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[28]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[28]</a> According to Seidman, his aim was to use comics to “consciously build African culture, making Mphahlele’s writing available to children and less literate people.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[29]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[29]</a> Seidman quotes Nhlabatsi as saying that “Sached was just a job, but whatever we were doing was for the people.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[30]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[30]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Cartooning was not taught at Rorke’s Drift and Nhlabatsi acquired his cartooning and comic skills “along the way.” He bought American comics as a child and read the comics printed in the back of the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday Times</em>. Nhlabatsi met comic artist and cartoonist Andy Mason at Ravan and they exchanged resources, ideas and techniques on creating comics. Mason identifies the cross-hatched black and white ‘underground’ comix style as being characteristic of Sached’s <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upbeat</em> and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People’s College Comics</em>. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[31]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[31]</a> While underground comix are associated with taboo themes of the ‘sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll’ kind, some examples did explore political and socio-economic issues and “deeply personal and autobiographical themes.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[32]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[32]</a> The pen and ink drawing style that Nhlabatsi developed for Matshoba shows similarities to the style he used in the comic<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Down Second Avenue</em>, which he created for Sached.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Visualising Matshoba’s Voice</span></span></em></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21764" height="681" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-1024x681.jpg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-300x200.jpg 300w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-768x511.jpg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-200x133.jpg 200w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-1170x778.jpg 1170w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="1024" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustration</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mtutuzeli Matshoba,”A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:2, (1979), 10. </span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Unlike the style of the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To Kill a Man’s Pride</em> image, the illustrations for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana</em> show the densely hatched, solid and powerful style Nhlabatsi developed for Matshoba’s writing. The story opens with an illustration spanning the width of the page, representing the first lines of the story:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(120, 193, 207); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The day it arrived, the brown official envelope with a red Prisons (sic) Department stamp had set my heart at a gallop, and my hands shook like an alcoholic’s as I started to open it … It was addressed by hand, an arrogant seeming scrawl which probably reflected the writer’s indifference as to whether the missive reached its destination or not. </em><a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[33]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[33]</a></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">While the illustration accurately reflects some aspects of the narrative, certain elements show a degree of artistic license. This includes the presence of tears on the protagonist’s cheek, and the writing on the envelope, which can hardly be called a scrawl, and evidences attention to lettering – a skill taught at Rorke’s Drift from 1974. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[34]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[34]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The use of pencil line here shows some affinity to the pencil drawings of Ezrom Legae, particularly his <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Copulation</em> of 1970, in its dark shading of parallel lines, and crosshatching contained within the outlines of the shapes. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[35]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[35]</a> Legae had taught at Jubilee Centre from 1958, and in 1969, moved to Mofolo Art Centre, where he was replaced by Dan Rakgoathe when he resigned. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[36]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[36]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nhlabatsi explained his working process for the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> illustrations as starting with him reading the story, followed by formulating the idea, and then creating the drawing “out of my head.” He would focus on the theme of the story and try to express what the “author is talking about”. Sometimes it was necessary to gather reference material from the Johannesburg Public Library to ensure, for example, the historical accuracy of a specific detail. He also developed friendships with many of the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> writers. In the case of Matshoba, the friendship would be lifelong. These friendships gave Nhlabatsi insight into the writers’ work and “greater intuition, regarding the illustrations and cover art that would suit the text.” Once the illustration was completed, he would present it to the commissioning editors for approval and publication. He confirmed that he was allowed a great deal of freedom in this process. This is evident in the Matshoba illustrations, which tend to not be a literal reflection of the story content, but rather imaginative constructions, which use the story as a starting point.</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21765" height="676" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-1024x676.jpg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-300x198.jpg 300w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-768x507.jpg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-1536x1014.jpg 1536w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-2048x1352.jpg 2048w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-200x132.jpg 200w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/4-1170x772.jpg 1170w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="1024" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustration<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em>Mtutuzeli Matshoba,”A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:2, (1979), 14.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana</em> tells the story of a man who receives permission to visit a political prisoner on Robben Island. The extract from the story chronicles his journey by train from Johannesburg to Cape Town, and his eventual arrival. This journey is represented in the above image, not in the literal way in which Matshoba describes it, but as a contemplation on time, through the multiple portraits which are layered one over the other. A prisoner holding onto jail bars is superimposed onto a Janus-like head, which in turn is placed over a train, upon which is written “time runs”, along with directional arrows. A bird in flight symbolises freedom. This interpretation was possibly inspired by the following lines from the story:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(120, 193, 207); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There is no turning back for fear that the ghosts who lie on the roadside behind may rise in retribution. To reverse things is to bring the ghosts back to life, for it is like reversing time to a time before they died at my hands, my chains and my guns.” </em><a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[37]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[37]</a></span></p></blockquote><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21766" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-656x1024.jpeg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-656x1024.jpeg 656w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-192x300.jpeg 192w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-768x1199.jpeg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-984x1536.jpeg 984w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-1312x2048.jpeg 1312w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-128x200.jpeg 128w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-1170x1826.jpeg 1170w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/5-scaled.jpeg 1640w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="656" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustration</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mtutuzeli Matshoba,”A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:2, (1979), 18.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The next illustration is also composed as a portrait within a portrait, and repeats the image of a prisoner, here placed within a cell formed by the head of, presumably, a prison warder. The foreground is occupied by three kneeling figures, and the background is divided horizontally by a city skyline. This image appears to reference the prisoner, physically locked away on Robben Island, but possibly also the mental imprisonment of the warder guarding him. It resonates with the famous Steve Biko quote “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” The double portraits also bring to mind W.E.B Du Bois’s concept of ‘double-consciousness’ that describes the “conundrums and complexities of what it means to be black in a white-dominated world,” to always feel a sense of “two-ness.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[38]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[38]</a> The figure of the prisoner represents the real, physical control and constraints exerted by the apartheid regime, but can be interpreted as a metaphor for psychological control by the state. Images of incarceration also appear prominently in the illustrations created for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Towards Limbo</em> and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Betrayal</em>.</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21767" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-768x1024.jpeg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-150x200.jpeg 150w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-1170x1560.jpeg 1170w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/6-scaled.jpeg 1920w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="768" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustration</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mtutuzeli Matshoba,”Towards Limbo”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:4, (1979), 45.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Towards Limbo</em> relates the experience of a man who moves to the city as it “offered the only hopeful alternative to limbo.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[39]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[39]</a> He is arrested for not having a pass, and is ordered to leave the city within seventy-two hours. Initially he ignores the order, but eventually does move to ‘limbo’, an outlying border area, to escape the constant threat of arrest. The narrative focuses on the inhumane conditions in jail and court, which is equated to treating humans as dogs, and this is referenced in the illustration by attaching a broad dog’s collar with spikes and a chain around the subject’s neck. This thick chain iconography, frequently drawn on by the Black Consciousness Movement, also references histories of slavery.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nhlabatsi interprets the narrative in a commanding image consisting of a close-up portrait of a prisoner that fills the picture frame. The prisoner wears a pair of round glasses constructed from handcuffs, expressing, according to Nhlabatsi, the prisoner’s thoughts. These thoughts appear to reflect a nightmare vision of the only two options available to him: jail or limbo. The anguish of his position is repeatedly emphasised through the body language of a number of smaller figures surrounding and overlapping the portrait. Despite the direness of his situation, the facial expression of the central character is unreadable. The portrait resembles an untitled image created by Fikile Magadlela, circa 1974, in which a head, impaled on a sharp rock and dripping blood, is positioned against a celestial orb, resembling a halo. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[40]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[40]</a> Hill’s interpretation of Magadlela’s image as a portrait of a liberation martyr, can equally be applied to this Nhlabatsi’s image. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[41]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[41]</a> Here we do not see the depiction of a specific, individualised person, but the embodiment of all the people who sacrificed their freedom in the liberation struggle.</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21768" height="831" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7.jpg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7.jpg 885w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7-300x282.jpg 300w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7-768x721.jpg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/7-200x188.jpg 200w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="885" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Fikile Magadlela, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Untitled</em>, circa 1974.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shannen Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness</em> (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), 20.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">This interpretation aligns with Vaughan’s argument that Matshoba’s writing is not concerned with characterisation in terms of reflecting individual interiority, individual specificity and separateness, and focuses instead on exemplary situations, which show an element of common experience. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[42]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[42]</a> That the illustration reflects a common, rather than specific experience, is evident in the fact that it was also used in 1982, on the book cover for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Children of Soweto</em> by Mbulelo Mzamane, which deals with the Soweto Uprising. Similarly, the illustration for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Betrayal</em> deals with another deplorable situation under apartheid – that of the death of anti-apartheid activists in detention. It is an appalling fact that, at the time of Steve Biko’s death in police custody in September 1977, forty-five South Africans had already died in detention, since the introduction of detention without trial in 1963. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[43]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[43]</a></span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21770" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-646x1024.jpeg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-646x1024.jpeg 646w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-189x300.jpeg 189w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-768x1218.jpeg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-969x1536.jpeg 969w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-1292x2048.jpeg 1292w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-126x200.jpeg 126w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-1170x1855.jpeg 1170w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/8-scaled.jpeg 1615w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="646" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustration</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mtutuzeli Matshoba,”The Betrayal”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 3:3, (1980), 32.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Betrayal</em> relates the experience of a defiant woman called Nonkululeko (Freedom) who is in solitary confinement for her activism. In an effort to break her resistance, she is told that her partner Langa, who was also imprisoned, has died in an ‘accident’. Highly distressed, she signs a statement, which she did not write or read, to secure her release. The illustration depicts Langa in the foreground as a prostrate figure, the blood flowing from his head in a dark stream, indicating a violent death. This graphic representation links to the harrowing autopsy and funeral photographs of Steve Biko’s corpse, which became “an emblem of state abuse and forceful resistance to it.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[44]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[44]</a> These photographs were reproduced widely, including in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drum</em> magazine, and Nhlabatsi confirmed to me that he did see the pictures, and that they signalled what would happen to you “if they got you.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[45]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[45]</a> Hill argues that “Biko in death stood for the ongoing life of Black Consciousness … the living embodiment of individual will and honor, a martyr for causes that are humanist.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[46]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[46]</a> It appears that Langa’s corpse fulfills the same function, becoming, like Biko’s corpse, “a symbol of strength because he was seen to have paid the ultimate sacrifice for a higher purpose.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[47]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[47]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nonkululeko is depicted three times. First, as a large, disconsolate portrait with tears running down her cheek, with a small black arrow dangling from her earring. A second representation of her appears further back, and to the left of the large portrait. Thirdly, she is depicted in the background, sitting up in her bed in anguish, hands covering her face, inconsolable after the news of Langa’s death. Nhlabatsi creates a composition in which the viewer’s eye is endlessly led in a circular motion around Langa’s body, aided by the use of graphic arrows, which perhaps also reflect Nonkululeko’s continuous and tormenting thoughts.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A notable feature of these portraits and others created by Nhlabatsi, is their beauty and humanity, which gives visual expression to the Black Consciousness slogan “Black Is Beautiful.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[48]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[48]</a> In their depiction of beauty, Nhlabatsi’s illustrations correspond to Magadlela’s view that “if you draw a black man, he must be beautiful, handsome; the woman must be heavenly.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[49]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[49]</a> The main character depicted in the illustration for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three Days in the land of the Dying</em> <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illusion</em> likewise expresses a sculptural beauty.</span></span></p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 5px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; opacity: 0.8; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-21771" height="1476" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 2045px) 100vw, 2045px" src="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9-1024x739.jpeg" srcset="https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9-1024x739.jpeg 1024w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9-300x217.jpeg 300w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9-768x554.jpeg 768w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9-1536x1109.jpeg 1536w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9-200x144.jpeg 200w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9-1170x844.jpeg 1170w, https://asai.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/9.jpeg 2045w" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: inherit; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="2045" /></span></span><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px !important; line-height: 20px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 3px 5px 4px !important;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustration</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mtutuzeli Matshoba,”Three Days in the Land of the Dying Illusion”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:3, (1979), 17.</span></span></figcaption></figure><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The portrait of the protagonist, a traveller from the city, who makes a journey by train and bus to visit the homeland of Transkei, is meticulously crosshatched, and appears sculptural. As in the previous illustrations, the close-up portrait forms the focal point of the illustration, but uniquely, here, eye contact is established through a steady gaze.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nhlabatsi visualises what Vaughan refers to as the “counsel-giving friend”, the narrator, who in Matshoba’s stories, often takes on the form of the traveler, providing “counsel about some of the exemplary situations” in the life of black South Africans. Vaughan considers the journey – whether literal or as “an attitude of mind” – central to Matshoba’s narratives, and to the lives of black workers, who are constantly in transit between their place of work and home. The journey offers “a context for storytelling and counsel,” and Nhlabatsi visually relates one such moment in a tableau positioned to the right in the illustration. <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[50]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[50]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Nhlabatsi depicts an incident on the bus journey, when a discussion about women by a group of men, is interrupted by a woman, her indignation on their views clearly reflected in her posture. This assertive and fashionably-dressed woman from the city, is contrasted with the woman in traditional dress shown on the left, who balances a bundle of firewood on her head while walking over a field with livestock grazing in the background. This contrast of the rural with the urban is a visualisation of the binary distinction between tradition and modernity, an issue addressed by Biko in his use of the concept “the modern African culture.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[51]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[51]</a></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Gaylard criticizes Matshoba’s stereotypical representation of rural women from the Transkei as “the object of a male gaze … made to serve what is essentially a conservative, Africanist and patriarchal ideology. She is as fixed and timeless as the traditional Africa she is supposed to embody.” <a href="https://asai.co.za/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-staffrider/?fbclid=IwAR3Vc6ZQtuC5r3Fj7x1J_yODUmyIQjNZ8H87J5uvIapis0csx3efXB2IHzM#[52]" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">[52]</a> This criticism does not extend to Nhlabatsi’s depiction of women. They are depicted with humanity and appear self-assured and strong.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Conclusion</span></span></em></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">The illustrations which Nhlabatsi created for Matshoba’s writing are executed in a recognisable, bespoke style. His portraits are infused with humanity, beauty and dignity, and the solidity of his tightly shaded figures creates a powerful impression. He gives visual form to Black Consciousness in a way that is distinct from the work of other visual artists who were influenced by this ideology, thereby broadening our understanding of the visual culture which emerged around Black Consciousness in South Africa.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">By drawing on the language of comics, Nhlabatsi created illustrations with popular appeal which, he believes, contributed to affecting change in South Africa. His enduring belief in the power of art to affect societal change is reflected in a quote on his blog, which states:</span></span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(120, 193, 207); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Art is the greatest weapon against any tyrant regime. Arts talks to the heartbeat of a shackled nation and has a power to liberate.”</em></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p></span></blockquote><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Deirdre Pretorius is an Associate Professor in Graphic Design at the University of Johannesburg.</span></em></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: black; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: white;">Notes</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">[1] Staffrider was published between 1978 and 1993.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[2] Michael Gardiner, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South African Literary Magazines 1956-1978, </em>(Johannesburg: Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art, 2005).<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[3] Mtutuzeli Matshoba, “Autobiographical notes,” In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:3, (1979): 20.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[4] In addition to secondary sources, I conducted an interview with Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi on 4 March 2020 and followed up with email correspondence on 6 July 2020. All unreferenced quotes and biographical information are derived from the interview and subsequent correspondence.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[5] Mike Vaughan, “The Stories of Mtutuzeli Matshoba; A Critique”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 4:3, (1981): 45-47.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[6] Rob Gaylard, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing Black: The South African Short Story by Black Writers</em>, (DLit., University of Stellenbosch, 2008), 218.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[7] Judy Seidman, “Finding Community Voice; The Visual arts of the South African Cultural Workers Movement.” In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Visual Century Volume 3: 1973-1992</em>, ed. Mario Pissarra (Johannesburg: WITS University Press, 2011), 105<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[8] Andy Mason, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s So Funny? Under the Skin of South African Cartooning</em>, (Cape Town: Double Storey, 2011), 105.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[9] DSAE, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Consciousness</em>, accessed July 19, 2020. https://dsae.co.za/entry/black-consciousness/e00801.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[10] Shannen Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost: The Iconography of Black Consciousness</em>, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015), 2.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[11] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 1-2.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[12] Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi, “Eye: Mzwakhe Nhlabatsi on Visual Arts”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:2, (1979): 54-55.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[13] Seidman, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Red on Black</em>, 49.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[14] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, xviii.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[15] ASAI, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi</em>, accessed July 19, 2020, https://asai.co.za/artist/muziwakhe-nhlabatsi-2/. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[16] Philippa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rorke’s Drift; Empowering Prints</em>, (Cape Town: Double Storey, 2003), 197.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[17] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 18-19.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[18] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 18.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[19] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 18.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[20] Shannen Hill, “Creating Consciousness: Black Art in 1970s South Africa”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art</em> 42–43, (2018), 201.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[21] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating Consciousness</em>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[22] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating Consciousness</em>, 198.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[23] Judy Seidman, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Red on Black: The Story of the South African Poster Movement</em>, (Johannesburg: STE Publishers, 2007), 95.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[24] Diana Wylie, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Art+Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist</em> (Auckland Park: Jacana, 2008)., 54.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[25] Wylie, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Art+Revolution</em>, 54.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[26] Mason, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s So Funny?</em>, 105.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[27] Mason, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s So Funny?</em>, 105.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[28] Mason, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What’s So Funny?</em>, 105-106.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[29] Seidman, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Red on Black</em>, 95.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[30] Seidman, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Red on Black</em>, 60.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[31] Andrew John Mason, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black and White in Ink: Discourses of Resistance in South African Cartooning, 1985-1994.</em> (MA diss., University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2004). 154.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[32] Mason, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black and White in Ink</em>, 84.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[33] Mtutuzeli Matshoba, “A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:2, (1979): 10.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[34] Wylie, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Art+Revolution</em>, 64.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[35] Elza Miles, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Polly Street: The Story of an Art Centre</em>, (Johannesburg: The Ampersand Foundation, 2004), 122.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[36] Miles, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Polly Street</em>, 136.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[37] Matshoba, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Pilgrimage to the Isle of Makana</em>, 15.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[38] Reiland Rabaka, “Double-Consciousness.” In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Keywords for African American Studies</em>, ed. by Erica R. Edwards, (New York: New York University Press, 2018), 75-76.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[39] Mtutuzeli Matshoba, “Towards Limbo”, In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Staffrider</em> 2:4 (1979): 44.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[40] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 20.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[41] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 19.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[42] Vaughan, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Stories of Mtutuzeli Matshoba</em>, 45-46.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[43] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 48, 52.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[44] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 48, 52.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[45] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 68.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[46] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 59.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[47] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 68.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[48] Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 4.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[49] Fikile quoted in Hill, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Biko’s Ghost</em>, 18<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[50] Vaughan, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Stories of Mtutuzeli Matshoba</em>, 46.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[51] Steve Biko, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some African Cultural Concepts</em>, accessed July 19, 2020, http://chimurengachronic.co.za/some-african-cultural-concepts-by-steve-biko/.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />[52] Gaylard, <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Writing Black</em>, 244-245.</span></span></p></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-16786598305439370632021-04-01T10:09:00.004+02:002021-04-01T10:12:28.712+02:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dr David Koloane (1938 - 2019)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQIKCWzyTgYTyjIko-bminO4kutrRmBzk81-riB0U9B1xAKwKWDbgEQg7U-pRXMCCCV1osIj5iMwWKu7nF2IF2upCOb9MZAxhNpzIBCLBkD2OutFJPgicK7diHH8Cd-SlSwMyYqkOAL-B/s1105/David+Koloane.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="1105" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZQIKCWzyTgYTyjIko-bminO4kutrRmBzk81-riB0U9B1xAKwKWDbgEQg7U-pRXMCCCV1osIj5iMwWKu7nF2IF2upCOb9MZAxhNpzIBCLBkD2OutFJPgicK7diHH8Cd-SlSwMyYqkOAL-B/w660-h439/David+Koloane.png" width="660" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">The artists, staff and board of Bag Factory Artists’ Studios are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr David Koloane, known affectionately to many as Bra Da, at his home on 30 June 2019, age 81. We offer our sincere condolences to his wife Monica, his family, friends, and the many artists whose lives he touched with his generous spirit and unwavering dedication to sharing his knowledge, skills and passion for art. One of the founding members of the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Koloane was a champion for the development of the black art community in South Africa throughout his career of more than 40 years. He is regarded as a pioneer of South African anti- and post-apartheid art and is also revered as a committed educator, curator, arts facilitator, and prolific arts practitioner.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Born in Alexandra, Johannesburg on 5 June 1938, Koloane received his art training from 1974 to 1977 at the Bill Ainslie Studios, which later became the Johannesburg Art Foundation. In 1977 he co-founded the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) Gallery and became its first curator. This was the first art gallery in Johannesburg to provide a space for black artists. Koloane participated in the Thupelo Workshops in Johannesburg the Triangle Artists Workshop in New York, and Pachipamwe Workshop in Zimbabwe, a concept that spread to Botswana, Mozambique, and Namibia. Through a partnership with the London art collector and philanthropist Robert Loder, Koloane was instrumental in establishing the Fordsburg Artists’ Studios (now known as the Bag Factory Artists’ Studios). Founded in 1991, the Bag Factory became an influential studio space which made it possible for black and white artists to work together on a professional level, despite the apartheid legislation of that time. Over the past three decades, the Bag Factory has been guided by Koloane’s ethos of promoting the development of young artists by learning through mentorship and exchange.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1985 Koloane was awarded a Diploma in Museum Studies from the University of London and in 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Rhodes University. His work has been exhibited in South Africa, New York, London, Zimbabwe and Botswana. On 1 June 2019 a much-anticipated retrospective celebrating his work, A Resilient Visionary: Poetic Expressions of David Koloane, opened at Iziko South African National Gallery, presented in association with Goodman Gallery who represented the artist since the early 1990s, and curated by Thembinkosi Goniwe. The exhibition will be shown in Koloane’s hometown of Johannesburg later this year at Standard Bank Gallery and Wits Art Museum.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Through his work, Koloane confronted the urban world in figurative renderings and bold colours to develop a powerful mode of social criticism. His central subject, black life in the city of Johannesburg, is depicted in swirling, swaying, and exaggeratedly executed brushstrokes. His well-known representations of Johannesburg include hybrid individuals such as his iconic mongrel dogs/hustlers, and the results of urbanization: city streets crowded with throngs of commuters and grid-lock traffic, interspersed with the vibrant and pulsing rhythms of jazz, shebeen scenes, community celebrations, and birds in flight. Working in layers of ideas and media, Koloane comments on the emotional resonances of the city in representations that range from the vibrant and hopeful to the grey and melancholic and back again. Koloane’s drawings, paintings and prints recall the forcefully expressionist art of Gerard Sekoto (1913–1993), and the abstract experiments of early mentor Louis Maqhubela (1939–2010) and Sydney Khumalo (1935–1988). His work exemplifies the sensibilities and techniques of expressionist art in South Africa.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Late South African author and friend, Nadine Gordimer, described how "Koloane's interpretation of urban life has struggled and triumphed in finding different visions and modes, techniques, materials to express the huge oppressions, upheavals, and hard-won freedoms that have been epitomised in our cities' sprawl. His art is inward testimony. When we receive his painting and drawings we are not merely looking, we are drawn into discoveries about the process and spaces of living. And its endless mystery."</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-30411432834483203812021-04-01T09:48:00.000+02:002021-04-01T09:48:42.739+02:00<div class="td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_71_b73 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_13" data-td-block-uid="tdi_71_b73" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 4px !important; position: relative;"><div class="tdb-block-inner td-fix-index" style="box-sizing: border-box; transform: translateZ(0px);"><h1 class="tdb-title-text" style="background-color: black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 33px !important; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3 !important; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative;">Why David Koloane always laughed at Bill Ainslie</h1><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div class="tdb-block-inner td-fix-index" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="background-color: black;">Many artists have been known and remembered for their attitudes rather than their works. But not David Ntubu Koloane. Over the years, hundreds of students, mainly from Wits University’s School of the Arts, would rock up to his Bag Factory studio, often without appointments. They needed to consult him on black South African artists, most of whom were his contemporaries, like Sidney Kumalo, Ezrom Legae and Dan Rakgoathe – all who have since passed on. Others popped in to get advice on their work as they were being frustrated by their white lecturers, who sometimes did not understand the issues they were dealing with. Few will ever tell you he turned them down. That is the man Koloane was; a humble and affirming man througout his life.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">I met Bra David Koloane in 1996 when I came to live and work in Johannesburg. I ran into him at the Goodman Gallery one day, looking at artwork for inspiration. We began a conversation in which we discussed the work on show. I was impressed with his knowledge in reading the artist’s works against the subject matter and use of materials. Later, I enquired from Sis Bongi Dlomo-Mautloa, who happened to be there too, about “that man over there”. She chastised me for not recognising Bra David, a doyen of African art. I was so ashamed of my backwardness, as I had known of his work from magazines and newspaper articles.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">When, in 1998, I became a lecturer at what was then known as Technikon Witwatersrand, I visited Koloane in his Bag Factory studio to learn from him about his contemporaries as a means to counter the mainly white-dominated art syllabus. Those subsequent encounters with Koloane and his peers at the Bag Factory would prove essential in my appreciation of what he has done for South African art and, more importantly, black artists. A number of the artists had been subjected to the white gallery system that exploited them, going so far as to dictate to them what type of art they should produce and subject matter they should produce.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">From discussing the challenges and experiences that besieged mainly black artists, it became clear that the few black lecturers employed in the previously white institutions should change the situation. There was limited material on black artists, as not many white or black scholars had invested in them, with the exception of newspaper journalists. Journalists tended to report what they saw and did not critique the work, perhaps due to lack of in-depth training in art history and art criticism. We also had to look for more black role models to inspire and encourage the ever-growing number of black students within these institutions.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">Koloane was born on June 5 1938 in Alexandra to working class parents. The family relocated to Soweto in 1954. Here, he enrolled at Orlando High School where he met and befriended Louis Maqhubela (1939 – 2010). Maqhubela had been attending art classes at Polly Street from 1951 and immediately began to mentor Koloane. What Koloane emphasised about this informal mentorship, was that Maqhubela encouraged him to not copy from books and magazines but draw from nature, advice Koloane took seriously. In 1956 Koloane was forced to leave school to find employment after his father suffered a stroke. Being the eldest child in the family, Koloane obliged. After several clerical jobs, he finally left the world of formal work to pursue his first love (painting) in 1974.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">He joined Bill Ainslie’s studio from 1974 to 1976, before venturing on his own with friends, setting themselves up in Jeppestown. Over the years, Koloane has generously shared with me how the students of Polly Street informally, over weekends, taught other aspirant artists in Soweto. These classes started as far back as 1955, where Durant Sihlali (1935-2003), Ephraim Ngatane and others started classes to empower artists who could not attend Polly Street.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">During his teen years, Koloane would join these artists in learning skills that would serve him well when his time came to be an artist.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">Koloane attributes his love for reading as having given him an advantage over many of his peers. He read widely and knew more about art and art movements around the world than most.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">Another critical influence on Koloane was Bill Ainslie (1934-1989). Ainslie had opened up his studio to a number of aspirant artists of all races and creeds. When the time came for Koloane to realise his lifelong dream in 1974, when the company he worked for moved to another part of the city, he enrolled at Ainslie’s studio.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">In his studio, Ainslie taught only the weakest points that hindered the artist from achieving their goal. This allowed the artist to develop along his own way and not be bogged down by the dogma tertiary institutions are known for. Koloane relished telling the story of arriving at Ainslie’s studio with his portfolio. After Ainslie looked into his work, he asked him, “What is there to teach you?” Koloane would roar with laughter each time he shared the anecdote. Indeed, in 1975, Koloane and Lucas Sithole had their first exhibition, which sold out.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">Koloane, like most black artists of the time, produced works that commented on the socio-economic conditions of the townships they lived in. These works featured mainly musicians and various religious groupings. The music captured a variety of groups that competed to jazz and pop in Soweto. In religion, works featured mainstream churches like the Anglican, Lutheran and Catholic as well as Zionists (amaziyoni). The artists of the day were fascinated by the colours and rhythms of the rituals that took place. Koloane was no exception.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">The 1980s were a catalyst for Koloane. With the help of Sir Antony Cato and Robert Loder (both British art patrons), Koloane visited both New York and London Triangular Artists Workshops. These workshops cemented, in Koloane’s mind, what he needed to do back home to empower and grow the art practice of his fellow men. This resulted in the establishment of similar workshops to be known by their seSotho name Thupelo Art Project, a turning point in the experimentation by black South African artists, resulting in new and fresh art devoid of the hated “township art” label.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">In Koloane’s words, <i>“the advent of Thupelo Art Project provided the structure for initiating workshop programmes. The collective studio project has enabled individual artists to utilise the studios as a laboratory in which the artists can consolidate their technical maturity.”</i></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;">As the projects grew, Koloane continued producing work, giving seminars, teaching and attending conferences. He ensured more artists benefited from his experience through multiplying and decentralising these centres across the African continent. He also influenced the opening of residencies for artists from around the world. As a token of his hard work in changing the landscape of South African and African art, universities such as Vaal, Wits and Rhodes awarded him honourary doctorates. This is no mean feat for a quiet, methodical man whose vision was to see artists producing work unhindered by issues such as space to work from.</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.6 !important; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: black; font-size: 18px;"><i>Sipho Mdanda is a curator at Freedom Park and the VIAD associate researcher</i></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Droid Sans" !important; font-size: 12px !important; font-weight: 700 !important;"><br /></div></time></div></div></div></div></div></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-5594910008062901752021-04-01T09:11:00.000+02:002021-04-01T09:11:04.541+02:00Visionaries <p></p><p style="text-align: center;">MAVERICK CITIZEN</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Visionaries don’t complain – they get the work done: Remembering artist David Koloane</b></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">By Sipho Mdanda • 29 June 2020</span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTfv42-CceRCeAdXHQxH2NuLknw52ejLtrlk7j8XNkWLsoCcIiDbSHrQ0znAsvokqH1OF-GERuyvqRDRf73l-DFrR8QEK5xlLQMNG4OYSvJOWxbCGIxUEvYiibFxzw3foz7Ta8RV3A1hJ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="872" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTfv42-CceRCeAdXHQxH2NuLknw52ejLtrlk7j8XNkWLsoCcIiDbSHrQ0znAsvokqH1OF-GERuyvqRDRf73l-DFrR8QEK5xlLQMNG4OYSvJOWxbCGIxUEvYiibFxzw3foz7Ta8RV3A1hJ/w631-h419/image.png" width="631" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">David Koloane. (Photo: newframe.com / Wikipedia)</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On 30 June 2019, David Koloane gave up the fight in a long battle with lung cancer. His passing left many around the world stunned because he had never once complained about his illness. For me, he was both a teacher and a mentor.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was in David Koloane’s nature to get on with the work at hand. He travelled the world representing South Africa in his many areas of expertise, ranging from exhibiting, curating, facilitating and addressing conferences.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane was born on 5 June 1938 in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg. His passion for art saw him undergo apprenticeships with a number of renowned artists, learning all he needed to know from them. The lack of art schools did not deter him from seeking assistance on improving himself. After doing several clerical jobs, he decided in 1974 to make art a full-time career. That decision not only changed his life but also influenced the art education of many black artists in South Africa and on the continent. He even left his mark in India and China.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane, who had done practically everything that could be done to counter the lack of art education and art institutions catering for black people under apartheid, worked quietly. He did all this without confrontation or pomp, changing the standard of art education, production, writing and curating – only in conference halls did he stand up and speak truth to power.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In spite of his hard work opening doors for young artists in South Africa and around the globe, it took 42 years before he was honoured with a retrospective exhibition at the age of 81 (just a few months before his untimely death). Fortunately, he lived long enough to see his own work in perspective at the National Art Gallery in Cape Town, but not long enough to read the tributes in a catalogue that followed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The fact that the three top tertiary institutions in SA recognised him with honorary doctorates was a feat for a black artist in the 21st century.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was also 42 years ago that David Koloane and Bill Ainslie teamed up and shared their experiences on art education and production in South Africa. One, a black person with little art education and experience, the other, white with a privileged education. Despite their different backgrounds, both had big visions.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bill Ainslie used his studio to teach not only visual arts to mainly white privileged students, but also to teach them about socio-economic issues besieging the country. In the meantime, Koloane was searching for – and then found – a partner who was amenable to his vision.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane needed to develop the expertise of running an art workshop to make the needed change in his community, which was deprived of art institutions and studio spaces. Although actors, playwrights and poets had to some extent ameliorated themselves from the yoke of white oppression, the same was not true of visual artists. White gallery owners dictated what visual artists should produce and what could be shown; a travesty against creativity.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane’s first realisation of his vision was the establishment of the Federated United Black Artists (FUBA) in 1978. FUBA set about liberating black artists from the clutches of white control and markets. Black artists were, for the first time, able to make art and sell it on their own terms. But this was on a limited scale and they lacked funding and studio spaces.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane believed in building bridges between the formal and informal teaching institutions to benefit both the teaching staff and researching students. The Bagfactory/Fordsburg Artists’ Studios continue to play a pivotal role for tertiary and art schools to send their students to meet and discuss their projects with the artists in residence.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, as confirmed by art educator Michael Gardiner, Koloane set his eyes on the horizon: <i>“The solution came when both Bill and Koloane attended the New York Artists Triangular Workshops in 1983”</i>, where they learned about collective participation of artists by artists and for the artists themselves.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When they returned to South Africa they started the Thupelo Art workshop. This was primarily to solve two main challenges, namely, supporting artists with materials so they could experiment with their art and second, to work in secure studios, sharing ideas among their peers. This resulted in highly improved art production by black artists and was a far cry from the hated ‘Township Art’ label.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To ensure continuity, studios had to be found so artists could work freely without the constraints of limited spaces found in their small township houses. These studios also became places where collectors and curators could find and procure artworks, thus making artists self-sufficient without signing their freedom away to unscrupulous gallery owners.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On a national level, what Koloane and Ainslie started, embraced and enhanced is what Sidney Kumalo and Cecil Skotnes did when they opened and ran Polly Street, giving urban black artists their first opportunity to learn art in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Both projects succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations and, to this day, the apartheid project of turning urban blacks into craft makers failed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rory Bester, a former art history professor at Wits University, characterises Koloane’s work as a <i>“beacon and a benchmark towards whom and around whom so many artists were drawn in waves of gravitational pull”.</i> A feeling echoed by Neil Dundas’ assertion that <i>“he created space and opportunity for the next generation of black and brown South African artists to study, exhibit and shape the discourse of contemporary African art within both international and local peer groups”.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane’s vision was supported by numerous white liberals who believed in his work. As a result, they continued funding his endeavours and more centres opened, first in Cape Town and later 30 more around Africa. There is even one in India and another in China. This became the model to confront a world-wide challenge facing artists in developing countries.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane’s legacy goes beyond just being a prolific artist, writer, curator and teacher – his studio became the place to go to when one needed any answers to any question.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane had great belief and trust in the younger generation. He provided opportunities and started a bursary scheme that has seen many young students achieve their goals. Art teachers, lecturers and art students were able to visit and interact with artists in proper studios. This ease of access to African artists encouraged a number of young art students to believe they too could follow in the footsteps of their role models.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Koloane believed in building bridges between the formal and informal teaching institutions to benefit both the teaching staff and research students. The Bagfactory/Fordsburg Artists’ Studios continue to play a pivotal role for tertiary and art schools to send their students to meet and discuss their projects with the artists in residence.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Students also benefit from learning about the business of art and the industry’s complex nuances, gaining useful skills no tertiary or art school teaches.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The last word is by Professor Premesh Lalu, who sums up Koloane’s legacy as follows:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>“Koloane, I suspect, realised that the artist needed to always work as an educator, not in the mode of the didacticism of school, but as a composite artist learning and teaching to live beyond the constraints of that which is given to one. If the workshop movement that he helped to build exemplifies this sentiment, we will recall that that very concept that Koloane helped to forge was what ultimately pushed us over the threshold of apartheid.”</i> DM/MC</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Sipho Mdanda is curator at Freedom Park and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-60359755300021626852018-05-07T08:58:00.000+02:002018-05-07T08:58:27.203+02:00Comrades in the Arts and Culture - four decades ago<h2>
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi: </span></b></h2>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Illustrator, graphic designer, photographer and teacher<i> </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Art is the greatest weapon against any tyrant regime. Arts talks to the heartbeat of a shackled nation and, has a power to liberate.” </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi is best known for his representations of political themes that were published in the progressive media in the 1970s and 1980s. He worked as a graphic artist and illustrator for Staffrider and SACHED Trust. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He along with Kevin Humphrey and Andy Mason started an underground pre-print organization Graphics Equalizer that produced anti-apartheid media for mass democratic organisations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Muziwakhe has trained dozens of struggle artists, which included Zanele Mashinini, Neo Makhonya, Jasper Galela, Philip Malumise, and Linda Ward and many more. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Education: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1994 - 1997: </b>Various computer training courses, Hirt & Carter training school, Johannesburg; Parkhill Technologies, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1993: </b>Management of Book Production, British Consulate, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1988: </b>Creative Publications Design, SACHED Trust, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1980: </b>Archie Legatts Fashion Academy, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1976-1977: </b>ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1970-1971: </b>Mofolo Art Centre under Dan Rakgoathe, Mofolo Village, Soweto, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1969-1972:</b> Jubilee Art Centre under Bill Hart, Johannesburg.
Exhibitions (solo) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1972:</b> Gallery of African Art, Johannesburg - Exhibitions (group): </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2006: </b>Ubuntu - Striving for life and Peace, Durban Art Gallery, Durban. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1981:</b> Black art today, Jabulani Standard Bank, Soweto, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1979: </b>Contemporary African art in South Africa, De Beers Centenary Art Gallery, University of Fort Hare, Alice. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1976: </b>New in the sun, Auden House, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1975: </b>Tribute to courage (with Fikile Magadlela, Percy Sedumedi, Winston Saoli and Nats Mokgosi), Diakonia House, Braamfontein, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1975: </b>Young artists, International Play Group Inc., Union Carbide Building, New York. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1974: </b>Group of six (with Fikile Magadlela, Anthony Miyeni, Mervin Davids, Johnny Ribeiro and Percy Sedumedi), Atlantic Art Gallery, Cape Town. Botswana National Museum, Gaberone, Botswana. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1972: </b>Art of the townships, Gallery of African Art, Johannesburg. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publications (illustrations): </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1988: </b>Down Second Avenue: The comic, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. Maria Mabetoa, A visit to my grandfather's farm, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1987:</b> Staffrider, vol. 6 no. 4, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. Mbulawa A. Mahlangu, Igugu lamaNdebele, Skotaville Publishers, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1986: </b>Gabriel Setiloane, African theology: An introduction, Skotaville Publishers, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1985: </b>Essop Patel (ed), The world of Nat Nakasa, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1984:</b> Eskia Mphahlele, Father come home, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1983: </b>Bheki Maseko, The night of long knives, Staffrider, vol. 5 no. 3. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1982: </b>Mbulelo Mzamane, The children of Soweto, Harlow: Longman, Cape Town. Eskia Mphahlele, Over my dead body, Staffrider, vol. 4 no. 4, pp 10-12. Mothobi Mutloatse, Mama ndiyalila, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1979:</b> Chabani Mnganyi, Looking through the keyhole, Ravan Press, Johannesburg. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Publications (books, exhibition reviews): </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2004: </b>Elza Miles, Polly Street: <i>The story of an art centre, The Ampersand Foundation, New York.
</i><b>1992:</b> E. J. De Jager, Images of Man: <i>Contemporary South African Black art and artists, Fort Hare University Press, Alice. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1975:</b> Elliot Makhaya and Eric Mani, Art in the Van Gogh tradition, The World newspaper, Thursday, July 10. Vusi Khumalo, Big Art show for Jo'burg City, The World newspaper, September 18, p 11. Elliot Makhaya, Mum doesn't appreciate, The World newspaper, Wednesday, March 12. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1974: </b>Eldren Green, Black artists, The Argus, October 17. Group of six at the Atlantic, Cape Times, October 22. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1999-2005: </b>Senior industrial technician, Gauteng Provincial Government, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1987-1998:</b> Graphic artist, Maskew Miller Longman, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1986-1993: </b>Graphic artists, SACHED Trust, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1986-1987: </b>Graphic artist, The Graphic Equaliser, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1979-1981: </b>Graphic artist, SACHED Trust (Turret College), Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1978-1979:</b> Make-up artist, Hollywood Display (Multiform), Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1978:</b> Art teacher, The Open School, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1974: </b>Art teacher, YWCA Vukuzenzele Children's Art Centre, Soweto.
Awards: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1979: </b>UTA Airways Fashion Design Competition, Johannesburg. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1970:</b> Merit prize, Chamber of Commerce art competition, Johannesburg.
Collections
De Beers Centenary Art Gallery, University of Fort Hare. </span><br />
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Runs a computer generated digital art studio in Soweto.
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matsemela Manaka (1955-1998): </span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Producer, choreographer, painter, sculptor, writer, poet, drummer, playwright, political activist, and Black consciousness cadre. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We believe in positive art, theatre of purpose, communal theatre, theatre of survival and liberation." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1976 Soweto uprising gave impetus to the late Matsemela Manaka’s career in theatre and the arts. Matsemela Manaka was a writer, director, actor, poet and cultural theorist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He grew up in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg. Attended Soweto's Madibane High School during the mid-'70s and later taught there. Manaka's career was characterised by his involvement in many different artistic and literary activities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An unusual talent for poetry, sculpting, painting and drama had been identified at a tender age. With the support of his family, a rigorous programme of self-education saw him emerge as a pioneer in the middle of the education crisis, which resulted from the Soweto riots in 1976. Between I970-81 he was the editor of Staffrider, a black art and literary magazine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matsemela rubbed shoulders with some of South Africa’s greatest artists. Increasing international discourse on apartheid led in 1986 to an invitation to attend a symposium in Dakar (Senegal) together with Breyten Breytenbach, Miriam Tladi, Miriam Makeba, Johnny Clegg, and others. Around that time, Manaka directed Caiphus Semenya’s play, Buwa. The opportunity to direct such eminent musicians as Hugh Masikela and Jonas Gwangwa (who wrote the music for the film Cry Freedom) was a major milestone in Matsemela’s artistic journey. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matsemela’s contribution to the Visual Arts is captured in Echoes of African Art, a compilation of visual art images spanning over a century. The work was described by Eskia Mphahle as “… a delightfully informative gallery of African art by South African practitioners”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was Manaka’s fervent wish that “after liberation our theatre shall celebrate our life and remain an integral part of our culture of the new day. The dedication of his seminal play Ekhaya summed up is sense of what he perceived as the challenges ahead: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The range of Matsemela’s work up to 1991 consisted of several plays and performances. These were, chronically: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• The Horn; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Egoli – City of Gold; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Imbumba; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Blues Africa; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Vuka, Pula; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Children of Asazi; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Domba – The Last Dance; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Siza; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Musium Over Soweto; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Koma; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Toro – The African Dream; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Gore; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Blues Africa Café; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• and Ekhaya. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the 1997 – 1991 period Matsemela wrote and generally staged– one play per year. Concurrently he wrote poetry; some of his early work was published in Staffrider, but much has remained unpublished. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fikile Patrick Magadlela (1952-2003): </span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Struggle artist, musician, poet and political activist. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “I started drawing on my parents’ walls from as early as I could remember!” </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fikile Patrick Magadlela (or Magadledla) was born 13 December 1952 in Newclare, Johannesburg South Africa. Magadlela died in 2003. Fikile grew up in a politicised home. His parents and maternal grandmother were imprisoned in the 1960s and in 1984 Fikile was also incarcerated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fikile, was the leading exponent of the principles of the Black Consciousness Movement in the visual arts in South African observed ‘Black Art is an important facet of Black Consciousness and Black artists are very conscious of their heritage’ (Black Art Today, 1981) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading books his father bought and getting knowledge from older people. He dropped out of High school in standard 8 (10th grade) to work as a full-time artist. Magadlela was relatively self-taught but he spent many hours with fellow artists exchanging ideas and techniques. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magadlela worked closely with artists such as Ezrom Legae, Solly Maphiri, Winston Saoli, Percy Sedumedi, Pietro Cuzzolini and Harold Jeppe who became his mentor, introducing him to art circles in Johannesburg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His most renowned work was entitled “Birth of The Second Creation” a series of drafted, mystical landscapes showing an African man and woman in flowing drapery and overwhelming clouds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later Magadlela would do bolder landscapes with similar characters using more colour and poetry. His first exhibition first solo exhibition was at the Goodman Gallery then owned by Linda Givon in 1978. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berman Gallery 1992. Retrospective at the UNISA Art Gallery 1995 </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingoapele Madingoane: </span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“They came from the west sailing to the east with hatred and disease flowing
from their flesh!”</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poet and social activist,
Ingoapele Madingoane, is considered the doyen of modern, politically conscious oral poetry. The late Madingoane was a formidable member of the 1976 Black Consciousness Sowetan poets. He wrote the famous, evocative, mini-epic poem, “Africa my Beginning”, which was published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg in 1979 and banned by the apartheid authorities two months later. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Madingoane performed the poem widely in Soweto, accompanied by Mihloti Black Theatre’s flutes and drums. It became a regular feature during the protest rallies and funerals of anti-apartheid activists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has had an indelible impact and influence on the post-apartheid generations of poets, including world-renowned poets Lesego Rampolokeng, Siphiwe ka Ngwenya and Kgafela oa Magogodi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Madingoane was honored with a SALA Literary Posthumous Award in 2007, nine years after his death, owing to a long illness. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Africa my Beginning </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They came from the west </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sailing to the east </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With hatred and disease flowing </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From their flesh </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a burden to harden our lives </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They claimed to be friends </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When they found us friendly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when foreigner met foreigner </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They fought for the reign </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exploiters of Africa </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Africa my beginning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Africa my ending </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They asked Mugabe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unataka nini hapa </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wewe mwenyewe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said binadamu zote </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ni ndugu zake za </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Africa
Nimefika nirudishie </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nchi zaZimbabwe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mimi ni mwenyewe </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Africa my beginning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Africa my ending </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Suckers of my country </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They laid their sponges </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flat on its soil and absorbed its resources </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To fill their coffers </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agostinho had spoken in the language of poets </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That they went away in multitudes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And forgot their hearts behind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But late is never a bad start in </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Africa my beginning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Africa my ending </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No easy way to freedom </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ten lonely years black hopeful men </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Food being their wish </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Courage their pay </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until Africa was respected </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a leader had emerged </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the bush to Maputo </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viva Frelimo </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Africa my beginning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Africa my ending </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember Ja Toivo </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Namibia is not lost </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nujoma is not idle he’d be coward if he was </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might as well know Germany is no more in </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Africa my beginning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Africa my ending </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Azania here I come from apartheid </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in tatters in the land of sorrow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from that marathon bondage </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the sharpville massacre </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the flames of Soweto </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was there </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will die there </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Africa my beginning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Africa my ending </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harry Mohaga: </span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nkoane Moyaga, like Fikile Magadlela, Leonard Matsoso (qv.) and Thami Mnyele responded to the call of the Black Consciousness movement as articulated by Steve Biko: </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“black consciousness has to be directed to the past to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background’.1 In line with their convictions they explored the beauty of being black. Instead of representations of poverty in the townships and an oppressed people, they interpreted and celebrated their legendary past.” </span></i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist and musician </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harry Moyaga; saxes, flutes and keyboards. Born on 12 January 1945 in Polokwane, Limpopo. He is also a visual artist who is based in London. Apart from interaction with artists such as Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in his formation as an artist. She kept alive their traditional religion alongside Christianity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consequently, her death was a traumatic experience. Moyaga believes that her influence still sustains him in his quest to express the link between daily life and the ancestral presence. In about 1971, when he took his first job at a business concern in Polokwane (Pietersburg), Moyaga began to make drawings that mirrored his spiritual experiences. Once, on an errand to a client’s house, he chanced to see a fascinating painting. This led to a conversation between Moyaga and the client, who asked </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moyaga to show him some drawings. He bought one of them and then introduced Moyaga to Brother Bral, who became his first teacher. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moyaga worked at two tourist shops before he moved to Francistown in Botswana where he now lives. The first was at Papatso, near Hammanskraal, and the second in Pretoria at a souvenir shop in Hatfield, where he modelled in clay. These models were cast in bronze for the tourist market. While working at Papatso he met Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.) with whom a friendship ensued and with whose art he sincerely identifies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nkoane Moyaga, like Fikile Magadlela, Leonard Matsoso (qv.) and Thami Mnyele responded to the call of the Black Consciousness movement as articulated by Steve Biko: </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“black consciousness has to be directed to the past ”¦ to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background’.1 In line with their convictions they explored the beauty of being black. Instead of representations of poverty in the townships and an oppressed people, they interpreted and celebrated their legendary past.” </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They developed unique techniques of mark-making which differ from conventional hatching, crosshatching and shading. Moyaga applies a technique, reminiscent of pointillism. These dots radiate rays to simulate tiny stars, dandelion seeds or seeds of the bidens species. By using signs resembling celestial bodies or vegetation, Moyaga links sky and land to symbolize the endless universe and infinite life. Before Moyaga begins to work, he meditates until he establishes contact with the ancestral spirits. Only when he has merged with them does he paint the visions they have inspired in him. In Modimogadi wa nong (plate 219) he interprets the supremacy of the Northern Sotho deity, Modimogadi, the Great Mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Though she protects all living beings, provides food and rules the rainfall, in this instance she appears as the vulture-goddess. Of all the birds, she has endowed the vulture with the keenest olfactory sense. Now merging with the vulture, which is her male counterpart, she leads him to a feast of abundance. There he will rip the liver from the carcass and devour it; then the other birds, already advancing, will join them. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exhibitions and Books: </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elza Miles1 Stubbs, A, (ed.). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1979.</b> I Write what I Like: Selected Writings of Steve Biko. Bowerdean Press:<i> London. p. 29. Nkoane Harry Moyaga Born Polokwane, Limpopo, </i>1954. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Training </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1971-1976:</b> Private Art School of Brother Bral, a Roman Catholic priest, Polokwane. c. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1977: </b>Bill Ainslie Studios, </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Johannesburg. Exhibitions </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1976: </b>Solo exhibition, Nedbank Building, Killarney, Johannesburg; Solo exhibition, Australian Embassy, Pretoria. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1977: </b>Solo exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1978: </b>Man, Beast and Ancestors, Waterfront Gallery, Cape Town; World in conflict, SAAA, Pretoria. Impande yo siko (Roots of heritage), French Embassy, Pretoria. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1980: </b>Lidchi Gallery, Johannesburg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1981:</b> Black Art Today, Standard Bank, Jabulani, Soweto. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1982: </b>Art toward social development. An Exhibition of South African Art, National Museum and Art Gallery, Gabarone, Botswana. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1995:</b> Solo exhibition, Gauteng Art Gallery, Caroline Street, Brixton, Johannesburg. Collections De Beers Centenary Art Gallery, University of Fort Hare, Alice. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy Mason: </span></b></h2>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Communications professional, visual artist, curator, historian, freelance cartoonist, editor, writer specialising in comic art and graphic literature. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy Mason was born on the 11 August 1954 in Pietermaritzburg. He also works as a freelance writer, cartoonist and editor. He has a Masters degree in cultural and media studies from the University of Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). And, 30 years of experience in South African publishing and communications work, mainly in the development sector. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andy Mason is head of CCIBA’s Comic Art Unit. After university he focused on creating anti-apartheid cartoons. Mason's work appeared in publications by Ravan Press and Sached Trust, as well as magazines like Staffrider and Upbeat. He founded Durban Comix, as well as the satirical periodical PAX (Pre-AzanianComix), in which appeared his popular <i>'The Big Chillum' </i>series. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He published under the pen names N.D. Mazin and Pooh, his underground comix, some of which go all the way back to the 1970s, include Cogent & amp; Crint, Vittoke in Azania, The Big Chillum, The Vittokes, The Legend of Blue Mamba, New Planet TV and The Artist’s Life. His self-published ‘zines, in which these comics have appeared, include PAX (Pre-Azanian Comix), Mamba Comix and The Artist’s Life use. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He created the popular 'Sloppy' strip (together with Mogorosi Motshumi, published for ten years in Learn and Teach), a humorous opera about the history of South Africa and the comic New Ground. He co-founded Artworks Communications in Durban in 1989, an educational agency focused on subjects such as AIDS, tourism, education and art. From 1994, Mason has produced illustrations and comics on topics such as democracy, civil rights and education. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has written, edited, art directed, illustrated and published a wide range of publications, from underground comix, illustrated training manuals and cartoon anthologies to legal and academic textbooks, high-level technical reports and policy briefs. His work as a of South African cartooning is reflected in ‘What’s So Funny?’ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He joined the Ithunga Art Project in 1999, drawing for Mamba and AIDS Sex News.
Until 2007, he worked as creative director at Artworks Communications in Durban (which he co-founded in 1989), but following a midlife artistic crisis he retired from business to become a penniless author.
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2001:</b> 'Africa Ink: Cartoonists Working Group, Towards an Association of African Cartoonists: Report of an International Workshop on Cartoon Journalism and Democratisation in Southern Africa,'
International Journal of Comic Art. Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2001 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2003:</b> Mamba Comix. Published by the Artworks Durban cartoon Project and edited by Andy Mason and Rico Schacherl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1989 – 2008: </b>Co-founder and creative director of Artworks Communications (Durban) between he assisted many organsations in the development of their organisational identities, communication strategies and publications programmes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2009:</b> Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts at Stellenbosch University, contributed to the development of South African cartooning and comic art through academic research and publication, editing and publishing local anthologies of comic art, as well as organising and curating a number of group exhibitions, workshops and public events. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2009: </b>Don’t joke! The Year in Cartoons. Eds. Mason, A, Curtis, J. Johannesburg: <i>Jacana Media.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2010: </b>Just for kicks! Johannesburg: <i>Jacana Media </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2011: </b>Co/Mix exhibition at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2011: </b>What's so funny? - Under the skin of South African cartooning. Claremont: <i>Juta Double Storey</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2013:</b> He held his first solo exhibition at the Alive Café in Muizenberg.
Under the Skin of South African Cartooning (Double Storey Books, 2010), and he has also co-edited two anthologies of South African political cartoons – Don’t Joke! and Just For Kicks! (Jacana Media, 2009-10), as well as Graflit: Graveyard Literature in Black & amp; White (CCIBA, 2013), an anthology of contemporary South African graphic literature. In 2013 he self-published The Legend of Blue Mamba (PreZanian Communications, 2013), a graphic novel.
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Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-30145978631034069162016-04-10T21:28:00.001+02:002018-05-07T01:41:01.516+02:00The last One Man Show - of Enoch Mandlenkosi Tshabalala<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-wjYSqnp88-eIw9_JfpHXPCInv-9lYY3dZcUw9YpoXCceGip_48HSDoJM-CZRjNDAI0amPeIA0r_s0sn8fEf9NhZNS4xUUAvY25KL5lQ6z7Fh5EXq8D94yvlaACImdfNb9M2_3Czfysf/s1600/Enoch+Tshabalala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv-wjYSqnp88-eIw9_JfpHXPCInv-9lYY3dZcUw9YpoXCceGip_48HSDoJM-CZRjNDAI0amPeIA0r_s0sn8fEf9NhZNS4xUUAvY25KL5lQ6z7Fh5EXq8D94yvlaACImdfNb9M2_3Czfysf/s640/Enoch+Tshabalala.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjye9B0RV0V4_0SgQfhAzke6jLOxfti0ulNUJ9Gyt23VopGv5NMlyxmjTHTLBdRxYn7BamQ7Z5soW6o0LnE5ogxvQOfwQ4uQDK6ZrwP7Ex9maWUtLGwnmZhJwI8ROvmVuBk5uIiEqOqaKLS/s1600/enoch-tshabalala-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjye9B0RV0V4_0SgQfhAzke6jLOxfti0ulNUJ9Gyt23VopGv5NMlyxmjTHTLBdRxYn7BamQ7Z5soW6o0LnE5ogxvQOfwQ4uQDK6ZrwP7Ex9maWUtLGwnmZhJwI8ROvmVuBk5uIiEqOqaKLS/s640/enoch-tshabalala-01.jpg" /></a></div>
In loving memory
Funeral programme of the late
Enoch Mandlenkosi Tshabalala
Born: 08 December 1941
Died: 29 July 2015
Date: 8 August 2015
The last One Man Show - Obituary
Enoch Mandlenkosi Tshabalala was the second born. Born under the cosmic Sagittarius star sign on the 08th December 1941 in Balfour, Mpumalanga to the loving beautiful couple namely; Lesiah his mother and the formidable Elijah Tshabalala his father. His late brother was Albert Mafika Tshabalala the first born.
In 1945, his family moved to Johannesburg when he was four years old. They first moved into the popular Kliptown township - on the periphery of Johannesburg were the Freedom Charter was written, and settled Masakeni, in Moroka - later in Soweto in Zola 2, in the year that it was established.
Soon, after this Tshabalala contracted Polio. After treatment at the Johannesburg General Hospital, he was bedridden for a long time. This was a major set-back in terms of his schooling life. When he regained the use of his arms, his mother brought him coloured crayons and paper, and he began to draw his surroundings which showed his hidden artistic talent. He also took a keen interest in music. In 1959, and later he became instrumental in the formation of a music group, the Moroka Bright Boys, and they also premiered in shows for the Manhattan Brothers; he loved jazz and gospel music. A neat and fine dresser, who chose only the best, ask those who know him very well.
His career spanned five decades in the arts and craft field. He was employed to paint Curios in an Art & Craft store, where he met his longtime colleague the late Durant Sihlali. He was later encouraged to study under the late famous artist Cecil Skotnes at the Polly Street Art Centre where most Soweto’s budding artists crafted their skills – due to apartheid laws they could not study in white’s only Colleges of Art and Universities. A major influence on his artistic career was his meeting with the late Dumile Feni and Durant Sihlali, in 1964, and after this his style of art shifted towards Feni’s to a notable degree, this is evident in the Expressionism in a couple of artworks by Tshabalala.
In 1980 he got married to the ever loving beautiful daughter of the Meso family – Sibongile Margaret Tshabalala who was the love and support of his life through thick and thin situations of their life, she looked after him from the day they met right to the last days. She gave him the most beautiful family of four boys, right from Nhlanhla, Siyabonga, Sicelo and Mduduzi. He loved them with all his heart. He thanked God that he had the rare opportunity to steal hugs and kisses from his grand-children’s innocent and smashingly gorgeous little faces – right from Ntokozo, Thando and Lungelo.
He continued to live and work in Soweto, Zola 2, until he met his untimely death. Tshabalala started sketching and drawing the people around him, and the birds and trees he saw looking out his window. He worked well with all mediums, but prefered watercolour and acrylics. Tshabalala has participated in many group exhibitions throughout Cape Town and Johannesburg. His work is found in several corporate art collections in and around South Africa, as well as in private collections around the world. And to add more challenge, Enoch added taxi signwriting, with some creative flare using his now famous ‘Umbhalo ohlangene’ a reference to the cursive writing that has become his trade mark or brand style.
Malebese is one of the corporate NPO’s he painted for, including Shandu’s Taxis, Mr. Mazibuko’s Taxis, and the Faraday Taxi Association where he wrote nearly all their taxis including the Dorjota Taxi Association – later due to ill health one of his sons assisted him in the signwriting jobs.
Lala ngoxolo, Dvonga.
Mabuza, Mshengu Tshabalala
Ludvonga lwaMavuso waNgwane
Sidvwaba sil’thuli
Singaba Mtolo, sifute ekhabonyoko
Sithi sibancwaba beza naMlandzakati,
Nine baseMhlongamvula, enathi uMhlangamvula udilikile
Kanti benemanga boTshabalala, bafihl’ indod’ emsamo
Bentel’ abantfwana babafokatane bezabalele
Bet(z)a behlab’ emva nangembili
Sithi bayeta baphelel’ endleleni
Smahla’ esihle esimabizwa yiNdlovu
Oyay’ eMbo wabuyelela
Lowacedza LuBombo ngokuhlehletela
Nahlokota timbhil’ emgedzeni
Taphuma tasabalala busaphalala
Nkonkoni enhle yaseMangwaneni naseMavaneni
Oval’ isibaya ngamakhand' amadoda,
Abanye bavala ngamahlahla
Simancamanca mathang' amahle
Ngathi awentombazane
Nkonjan’ emhlophe edlalel’ emafini
Engabonwa muntu, kodvwa Mswati kuphela
Awucedvwa Mshengu
Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-62830532704900306312016-04-10T10:51:00.000+02:002016-04-10T11:01:09.780+02:00Nathaniel “Nats” Mogosi Eulogy
<b>Date of Birth:</b> 1943-02-28
<b>Date of Death:</b> 2016 -03-30
<b>Date of Burial: </b>2016-04-09, Lenasia.
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Nats was a gentle man who was loved by all who came into contact with him, whether fellow artists, students or other people. He was always pleasant, never sought confrontation and the testimony to that is all of us here today. Nat’s and Percy Sedumedi were the first art teachers at The Open School in 1974 and together with Molefi Mololokeng who did drama and Les Carelse who did dance they formed the nucleus of The Open School. We started with a programme in town, mainly after school and on Saturdays but soon started teaching at several schools in Soweto in the afternoons and a farm school in Witkoppen on Saturdays.
This didn’t last long as the System got word of us and we were kicked out. No problem, we switched to community centre’s mainly run by churches. On top of that we started presenting drama, dance performances and art exhibitions on Saturday afternoons at these community centre’s. Nats and the art team did props and posters for the shows. We also tried formal art exhibitions but that didn’t work very well. But when we displayed the student work we got a huge response. Better still before a performance we would set out roles of news print on the floor and with charcoal. Nats and the team would get the audience at it, mothers and fathers and other youngsters drawing and we would put the completed work up as our exhibition and that really created excitement. Yes we worked up a storm and really mobilised an interest among young people in the arts.
Nats and I worked together for the next ten years and we developed a life-long friendship which endured throughout. Together with Joe Ndlovu he was the longest serving art teacher/head of art at The Open School and he inspired many young people some whom became artists and others who just became good people. I should mention Johannes Phokela who I think is here. He started off with Nats whom I know inspired him when he was about 8 years old and has gone on to great heights.
I was always fascinated with Nats’ art work and I always said to him that he was transferring a sculptural tradition to paintings and drawings. I am pleased to say that I have a few of these in my possession which I treasure and they occupy pride of place in my home. I also have a few sculptures that he experimented with at The Open School.
We went through very challenging times and defied many of the System laws and attitudes and created a moving space for young people to develop cognitive and expressive skills through the work we did. And we also had a lot of fun though out it all!
Farewell dear Nats, you will be greatly missed.
<b>By Colin Jiggs Colin Smuts</b>
8th April 16 - 2016Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5932311208863847172.post-10676563970163257692015-04-09T16:56:00.003+02:002022-07-14T13:36:40.112+02:00Wonga Mancoba dies in Paris | The Journalist<div class="et_post_meta_wrapper">
<h1 class="entry-title">Artist Wonga Mancoba dies in Paris</h1>
<p class="post-meta"><span class="published">Mar 10, 2015</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">By Phindile Xaba</p>
<p><i>His body of work was inspired by the African paradigm, nuance, and idiom.</i></p>
<p class="dropcap">Wonga Mancoba, 69, a painter whose body of work
was inspired by the African paradigm, nuance, and idiom, has passed
away in Paris after a long battle with his health.</p>
<p>Wonga was born to South African exiled painter, sculptor and thinker
Ernest Mancoba and his wife Danish sculptor, Sonja Verlov, in Paris in
the attic of famous Swiss sculptor Giacometti. He would follow in his
parents’ footsteps and become a refined painter.</p>
<h3 id="">His first visit to South Africa</h3>
<p>Wonga was not able to visit South Africa for the first 50 years of
his life. He visited with his father, Ernest, for the first time in
1994. This and subsequent visits had a remarkable impact on his artistic
expression. He had already tackled the theme of slavery in black and
white but his themes were visibly anchored on indigenous knowledge and
alive with colour.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQw2LCozaH7oy3niREQrvLtGN-gvWgPpQIq8O4eFCtam4uEix9t8uBZGcfBM4bULIUp7GlyUgVXIbO8czhFGPIQEPsOgRvP9r8hWxc9hufqMYubeHLQJjxbI8RHIZ8vKGLeR-fJRIaACEpI3EtxlXoJDVmom5InuxP7eTdKGwAocS8vi5tYZ0EyZBGQg/s450/mancoba2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQw2LCozaH7oy3niREQrvLtGN-gvWgPpQIq8O4eFCtam4uEix9t8uBZGcfBM4bULIUp7GlyUgVXIbO8czhFGPIQEPsOgRvP9r8hWxc9hufqMYubeHLQJjxbI8RHIZ8vKGLeR-fJRIaACEpI3EtxlXoJDVmom5InuxP7eTdKGwAocS8vi5tYZ0EyZBGQg/s320/mancoba2.jpg" width="213" /></a></div></div></div></div><p></p>
<p>His subject matter, Sophiatown; ‘Ghost’ Areas Act and Taxis was
inspired by his trips to the continent before his illness. Just like his
father, he believed in humanism or Ubuntu. He was once quoted in an art
publication – Catalyst as saying: “When people come into contact with
art that speaks to them, which puts them in touch with deeper aspects of
themselves and their own humanity, then I believe we will have a better
society; a more whole society where violence is a stranger; a place
where people are truly people by and because of other people.”</p>
<h3 id="">Born in Exile</h3>
<p>Before leaving South Africa in 1938, his father had won significant
prizes for his art. He went to Paris to expand his knowledge, there he
met a Danish sculptor Sonja Verlov, married her and she gave birth to
their only child, Wonga. Ernest was interned by the Nazis during the
Second World War, which he survived.</p>
<p>The small family tried to come back to South Africa after the war but
the Smuts government refused to allow Mancoba to bring his European
wife to South Africa. He became stateless and so did she.They eked out a
living for a few years in Denmark, and were active in the significant
art movement CoBrA but their small son – Wonga – was the subject of
racism there. They returned to France where a friend, Ms Penso, lent
them a small rural cottage.</p>
<p>Ernest often did farm labouring work to help them survive but they
both managed to continue to produce remarkable art. In 1961 they were
given French citizenship, moved to Paris to a small shop/studio where
they continued to produce remarkable art. In 1984 Sonja passed away.</p>
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<h3 id="">Homecoming</h3>
<p>Shortly after a South African art historian, Elza Miles, saw a work
of Ernest’s on a CoBrA exhibition in Paris and identified the name as
South African, traced Mancoba, found him and managed to bring him back
to South Africa in 1994 for a retrospective exhibition. It was his first
visit in 56 years. He was 90 years old and was accompanied by Wonga.
Ernest passed away at the age of 98 in 2002. Wonga was then active in
supporting efforts in South Africa to understand his father’s
significant artistic and intellectual legacy.</p>
<h3 id="">Wonga’s ill health</h3>
<p>Over a year ago, Wonga, now in his 60s, had a series of small strokes
and was hospitalised in Paris for many months. He was cared for by long
standing friends of the family, Alain Spielmann, Charley Chevalier,
Corinne Penso and Elske Miles, Elza’s daughter amongst others. Sadly on
12 February he passed away. Wonga was single and had no children. He is
survived by his cousins, Zodwa Mkalipe and Ntando Mancoba, who live in
Soweto and Matatiele, respectively.</p>
<p>Penny Mkalipe, the family representative and Wonga’s niece said: “It
was with sadness to hear about our uncle and brother’s passing. We wish
to thank all for the support shown during this time of our bereavement.
Two family representatives travelled to Paris, France to participate in
funeral arrangements. The funeral and memorial service were held on 2
March, in Paris to honour his life, at Pere Lachaise.</p>
<p>Thereafter, the family representatives will bring his ashes to South
Africa, where he will be laid to rest with his father, Ernest Mancoba,
and grandparents, in Benoni.”</p></div>Muziwakhe Nhlabatsihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297757679654697961noreply@blogger.com0