His works are collages assembled from scraps and junk from flea markets and townships like shoes, bones, tins, newspaper clippings and metal pieces combined with oil paints and photographs.
His father was Xhosa and his mother was classified coloured by the
When he was 10 years old his family was force to move in accordance with the Group Areas Act and Besterhad to leave school to help the family economically.
One of his works was sold for £10.000 at a Sotheby´s auction in London.
