E1.12.1.04 :: Caption: George Pemba in action outside his home in Port Elizabeth, 1955. OR On a visit to Cape Town in 1941 Pemba met fellow artists Gerard Sekoto and John Mohl, who encouraged him to change his medium to oils from watercolour, as this was more in demand by art buyers. Sekoto also advised Pemba, who at that stage was primarily a portraitist, to paint aspects of township life in order to expand his range of subject matter © Baileys Archive (Photograph by Drum photographer)