Cartoon commentary lifts the lid on the serious world of politics
On December 7, I drew my daily cartoon live inside the gallery as part of Iziko South African Museum’s Thursday late programme. I had been invited to be part of Derek Bauer’s retrospective exhibition at the Cape Town gallery. It is an incredible honour to be part of such a prestigious show of a great South African cartoonist and this occasion allows me to look back at my 15-year career as the editorial cartoonist of Business Day. I was born in Cape Town in 1970. I grew up in Lansdowne and Athlone on the Cape Flats. My parents nurtured my drawing talent from an early age, collecting stacks of used paper and letting me draw on the backs of greeting cards, cigarette wrappers and matchboxes. I attended art classes at weekends and continued drawing throughout high school, although art was not offered as a subject at my school. While staying with my maternal grandparents in Bridgetown, when I was about eight years old, I discovered a book of cartoons by the British cartoonist Giles. I ass...
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