Vincent Kubeka
Published information on Vincent Kubeka is limited and new information is hard to access since his violent death in 1986. In their book Rorke’s Drift: Empowering Prints, Elizabeth Rankin and Philippa Hobbs relied on information provided by his friend Dumisani Mabaso as follows:
[He] remembers that students at Rorke’s Drift found Kubeka an inspiring class mate, but they were only at the Centre for the first six months of 1975, while Otto Lundbohm was still teaching, after which they were asked to leave, apparently because they had spent all their time in the printmaking studio. Although Kubeka did not return to Rorke’s Drift as Mabaso did, he continued his career as a printmaker. Mabaso recalls that Kubeka was a strong influence at Squzu Studio, established by Mabaso in 1982, that that the Squzu was actually named after him and his habit of using the name ‘squzu’ meaning ‘brother’ to address his friends. Mabote and Mabaso both state that Vincent died in a vicious stabbing attack in the 1980s.1 Read More…
