Michael Madimetja Teffo
Michael Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne. The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his birth. Teffo went to school in Hammanskraal up to Standard 8 before leaving to focus on his artwork. He received no formal art training, but he was interested in art from a young age, sculpting in Marula wood with a pen knife as a child.