SA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born

Anthony Molebatsi Nkotsi, South African artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, was born in Johannesburg. During his schooling years he would spend any money that his mother gave him on art materials and spent his Saturdays at informal art classes in Orlando, Soweto. Here he was exposed to contemporary South African art and was particularly impressed by a large drawing by Dumile Feni. His involvement in the student uprisings of 1976 saw him being detained. On his release he attended art classes at the Mofolo Art Centre where he met Dumisani Mabaso and Gordon Gabashane who had then recently graduated from Rorkes Drift. Together with Mabaso he founded Skuzo, a printmaking studio in Johannesburg in 1983 and the Hammanskraal Art Project, north of Pretoria.