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10 DECEMBER 194814 JUNE 1985
Mega Artists Magazine takes time to
remember revolutionary artists. Artists
who by their work, a movement or style
of thinking and acting has started. A
synopsis of their background is
compiled, to bring light to our readers,
about this Mega Artist.
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On this month’s issue we shed light on a
peculiar style of art, called Graphic Art by
struggle veteran Thami Mnyele, who was
born on 10 December 1948 – in the poor
and over-crowded township of Alexandra,
in Johannesburg.
His art skills emerged in his teenage years,
when he was sent to boarding school in a
village northwest of Pretoria when he was
8 years; it’s where he learned to draw.
In the late 1960's and 70's, in Alexandra
township, Mnyele became involved with
poets and activists inspired by the Black
Consciousness Movement of Steve Biko,
to fight for equality and an end to apartheid
injustices. He spent 18 months studying at
the Swedish Lutheran art center, Rorke’s
Poster Design: for
The Culture and Resistence
Conference in Botswana
1982
Drift in natal. In 1973 he worked briefly as a
graphic artist in Johannesburg, at J.Walter
Thompson Advertising agency and then as
a graphic artist for the print-shop run by
South African Council of Churches for
Higher Education(SACHED). For more on
this Mega Artist, please do read more at
COURTESY: www.wikipedia.org/Thami_Mnyele
www.megaartists.co.za
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