Bob Connolly - original Political Cartoon: 'SA Coloureds' Kindergarten'

An original South African political cartoon by Bob Connolly.

The cartoon appeared on 15 May 1975 in the well known progressive newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail.

Medium: Ink with watercolour on robust cardboard. Signed in the top right hand corner

Dimensions:  356 mm x 254 mm (cartoon area 275 mm x 240 mm)

Some notes have been inscribed by the previous owner on the right hand side margin (in Afrikaans), on the lower margin (in English) and on the rear of the card (in Afrikaans). These notes would be obscured by the mount if the cartoon was framed.

Description
The cartoon is titled 'SA Coloureds' Kindergarten' and reflects on a happening that occurred in 1976 in apartheid South Africa.  The Coloured Representative Council (CRC) of the Republic of South Africa was a partially elected Council with limited legislative powers, intended to represent coloured South Africans during the apartheid era. The CRC was first elected in 1969, re-elected in 1975, and permanently dissolved in 1980.

In 1976, the Chairman of the CRC's Executive was Alathea Jansen, who served from 1975 to 1980. It is presumably Jansen whom Connolly has drawn as a caricature of a disgruntled child playing with a wind-up CRC toy car. He is overseen by the Minister of Coloured Affairs, Schalk van der Merwe - a minister in B J Vorster's Cabinet. A man representing 'South Africa' says to the Minister: "Wouldn't you say he's too grown up to be forced to play with toys'. Connolly's ever-present 'Little Man' looks on. A man with a long beard in a black suit and top hat - a caricature of the apartheid policy of the day - stands in the background.

Biographical history
Robert (Bob) James Connolly (1907-1981) was born in Paterson New Jersey, USA. He briefly studied journalism at Columbia before embarking on a career as a cartoonist. In 1937 he moved to South Africa on a 12-month contract and remained for the rest of his life. Connolly was best known for his characteristic Little Man in his cartoons, who represented the average South African. Connolly's cartoons appeared in the pages of the Rand Daily Mail for almost two decades.

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