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I was an anti-apartheid cartoonist with The POST before I went to Brazil, and then on to New York.

As an artist, I didnt really think I was good because I was not White! It was an inferiority complex that most non-white people felt during Apartheid. With that inferiority complex I had a sell-out exhibition in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil and New York, USA. I also did cartoons for a syndicate run by the New York Times called Views of the World.

My ambition was to become a cartoonist at The Daily News when I came back to South Africa. It was a tall order. The great Jock Leyden was The Cartoonist at that time. I was a big fan of his work. He was a brilliant craftsman. However, I felt he didnt tackle the issues that concerned me and many others. When he passed away, I applied for the position, but was not given the job. When Kaizer Nyatsumba became the first Black Editor of a mainstream newspaper, he hired me as a cartoonist.

I then walked a tight rope. The Daily News was meant for the English colonialists from the Last Outpost. The IFP was the ruling party in Kwa-Zulu Natal. The Indian community were the biggest readers, and the ANC ruled the country. I picked on all of them. I did not do jokes. I just pointed out ironies of stupidity!!