The Art of Life in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner

Author:Daniel Magaziner [Magaziner, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Africa, General, Art, African, Political Science, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
ISBN: 9780821445907
Google: 0DdgDQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2016-11-09T00:24:17+00:00

Figure 6.2 Practice teaching, 1968, Ndaleni Scrapbook 3, with the permission of the CC

Sedibane had indeed kept faith with art education, although it had not been easy. He was a member of Die Boksombende, the group of four students from Lemana Training College who had gone to study with Atkins in 1956. But Sedibane had not yet completed his teacher qualifications, and he had a difficult time securing a position upon finishing his specialist teacher’s certificate. He returned home to the Johannesburg area in 1958 and tried to eke out a living teaching wood carving to anyone who was interested. “He was a true missionary,” Bell remembered. Apart from that tutoring, however, by 1961 Sedibane was spending most of his time working on a farm. A few African artists were making a name for themselves in Johannesburg, and Sedibane was interested in pursuing that path. But sculptors such as Sydney Kumalo worked in bronze, not wood. Sedibane asked Bell if he knew of any place where he, Sedibane, might be trained in the medium. “It would be a wonderful thing if you could develop a reputation for bronze work,” Bell enthused, but it was an expensive prospect. They schemed together about it for a few weeks before Sedibane was finally appointed as the art teacher at the Wilberforce Institute in Evaton, south of Johannesburg. Wilberforce had been founded by the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, but was now a Bantu Education training college. Sedibane started working in May 1961. He had been unemployed for three years.14

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