Manfred Zylla was born in 1939 in Germany and moved to South Africa in 1970. He is well regarded in South Africa for his precise draftsmanship, his mastery of high political satire in support of the anti-apartheid movement, and for his formal mash-up style combining a critical realism with postmodern montage and pastiche. During a period that witnessed the gathering of forces into the United Democratic Front and the final push by artists (a.k.a. "cultural workers") and activists to end apartheid, Zylla made a profound impact with his interactive event hosted at the Community Arts Project in Cape Town, just before the sixth anniversary of the 1976 youth uprising in Soweto.
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