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Godfrey Sipho Ndaba was born in 1947,one of eleven children,and has live in Soweto all of his life .His fascination with art came from an early age as every time rain fell he would draw human faces in the wet soil.
He attended a primary school in Soweto ,but went to the Jubilee Art Center twice a week after school hours ,studying under artists such as Cecil Skotnes and Sidney Khumalo.
Painting became an obsession as Godfrey made portraits of all his family and friends the artist flair expanding into sculpture as he formed image of cattle and people clay dug out of the river .
Godfrey completed a teachers course then went on to study at the Ndaleni Art School in Kwa -Zulu Natal.His firstmajor successwas for a sculpture entered in a competition at Fort Hare University Museum.
Godfrey toured the city galleries,finding they would always take some of his work .His first one man exhibition came in 1972,and to his delight and surprise was a sell out.Along with other artist he then staged group exhibitions in South Africa,Greece ,Israel,Germany, and the United States.
Today Godfrey Sipho Ndaba's work features in many collections ,including the private collection of Thabo Mbeki the forma president of South Africa .Godfrey is regarded as one of the best Soweto and South African artist ,and passes his skill and techniques on those he teachers.
His works is exciting,and often deeply moving a must for any collectors of African/South African art.