Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office technician, he met photographer David Goldblatt in, who took him under his wing and allegedly helped him to build up a portfolio with which he got into Michaelis School of Art. Although he did not finish his degree, he embarked on a fruitful career in printing, photography and invention. Among his inventions is the Panfield 4” x 5” camera, which is used all over the world, and a 40-watt per channel stereo amplifier.
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Sean O’Toole, The Big Picture, Sunday Times: Lifestyle, 17 October 2004, p. 5.