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Dov Fedler

DOV FEDLER is in his 70th year and has been drawing for more than 50 of those. This is self evident in his cartoons where a skilled hand, an intuitive…>

"For your own Good"
DOV FEDLER’s cartoon entitled “Its For Your Own Good” is about the Group Areas Act which prohibited people of colour from living where they wanted to under Apartheid in South Africa. Black residents illegally renting flats in Hillbrow (in Joburg’s inner city) lived in constant fear of eviction. This cartoon is part of a collection donated by the cartoonist to Museum Africa. It was first published in 1978 (exact date and publication unknown - probably 'The Star').