A YOUNG BOY GROWING UP IN THE 1960s in the former homeland of the Transkei, Luyanda Mpahlwa loved drawing houses. It was something he’d completely forgotten about by the time he’d reached his matric year in 1976, when it was time to make the critical decision about what he wanted to do with his life. “My father was an English and Latin teacher, and wanted his three sons and daughter to study engineering, because that’s where he thought the future of the country lay,” says Luyanda. “But my mother, a nurse, remembered that I used to love drawing houses, so she
