Ephraim Ngatane

Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane was born in Maseru, Lesotho (then Basutoland) in 1938, moving to Johannesburg in about 1943. He was educated at Mooki Memorial School, where his talent was recognised and promoted from an early age by his primary school teacher, Mrs E.L. Mooki, and later at the Orlando High School in Soweto. Between 1952 and 1954, he studied painting at the Polly Street Art Centre under Cecil Skotnes (qv.), later going on to teach at the centre in its various manifestations. Read More…