Trevor Phila Makhoba was born at Umkhumbane, Durban in 1956. His art is uniquely grounded in his experience of life and contemporary events in KwaZulu-Natal. He reflects on this experience, as Andy Mason has noted, with elements of the satirical ‘that combines social realism with the surreal’. Another recent observation on his work locates it within the traditions of Black art in KwaZulu-Natal, as an extension of the work of Gerard Bhengu for example, as ‘the persistence of a romantic realism’ that reflects a “popular language that is accessible and lucid”. He died in 2003.

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