page_title: Madi Phala
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Madi Phala / Biography
caption_attribution_description: SS Mendi Memorials, University of Cape Town
context_page_description: Madi Phala was a South African artist. His most recent works were predominantly painting, and collage and dealt with the theme of the African herd boy.
context_section_description: Phala was born 2 February 1955 in Kwa-Thema, Springs, South Africa.
  Phala's work is represented in several private and corporate art collections, including the French Embassy; De Beers, London, as well as Minister Pallo Jordan and art historian Barbara Lindop.  His sculpture SS Mendi Memorial, commemorating the sinking of troopship Mendi in 1917, was designated a national heritage site in 2016.
  He was murdered outside his house at Langa, Cape Town on 2 March 2007 during a robbery.
caption: SS Mendi Memorial, University of Cape Town
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