Lefifi tladi biography of rory

The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). The township fell victim to apartheid’s forced removals as a so-called Black spot.

A Black spot was an area that Black people bought legally in what the government considered as White South Africa. People who lived in Black spots were told to leave their places and later removed forcefully to make way for White people.

Owing to his goatee beard, Tladi was nicknamed Jomo after Kenya’s post-independence hero, Jomo Kenyatta, who had a similar goatee.

Lefifi tladi biography of rory

His involvement in the cultural world started in when he co-founded a youth club known as De-Olympia in the township of Ga-Rankuwa, north-west of Pretoria. Other members of this group were childhood friends like Sir Isaac Nkoana (who would later influence him into becoming a sculptor), Anthony Mologwane Makou, as well as Matsobane Legoabe.

They hosted workshops and rec