Maforaga rediscovers artistic calling

Maforoga's work speak for themselves
Maforoga's work speak for themselves

To Oupa Maforaga, 33, from Palapye, fine art is a God-given talent that is stuck with him despite numerous years of abandoning and sidelining it.

“I am stuck with drawing and painting, and I have figured after so many years of dumping this talent I might as well give it another chance. 

It just can’t go away,” he said. Maforaga is the go-to person for portrait paintings and pencil drawings in Palapye. He is a fine artist. His portraits hang in different top offices, hotels and lodges in the village. He has done portraits and different art pieces for prominent people across the country. He ekes a living out of art, but his fulfilment is not the money he gets from selling art pieces, it is the quality of what he produces.

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