SA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born

South African cartoonist Daniël Cornelis Boonzaaier was born at Patatsrivier in the Cape Province in 1865. Boonzaaier became famous for his caricatures and political cartoons. He came to Cape Town in 1882 as a clerk in the Master’s Office, where he started drawing portraits from photographs of world celebrities.In 1903 he became the first cartoonist appointed to the permanent staff of the South African newspaper, South Africa News. At the inception of the Afrikaans newspaper, Die Burger, in 1915 he became its cartoonist until the 1940s. Boonzaaier died in Cape Town in 1950. In 1973, his work was included in the exhibition ‘South African Cartoonists and Comic Strip Artists’ at the Pretoria Art Museum. References: ArcyArt.com (2011). ‘Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier - South African Artist, Paintings 1865 – 1950’,fromArcyArt [online]. Available at www.arcyart.com [Accessed: 18 October 2011]  South African History Online(2011). ‘Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier’[online]. Available at www.sahistory.org.za[Accessed: 18 October 2011]