All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa

About Richard Conyngham

RICHARD CONYNGHAM is the author creative director and researcher behind All Rise. He is a Pietermaritzburg-born writer who lives in Mexico City. After graduating from the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge he worked for South African civil-society organizations Equal Education The Bookery and Ndifuna Ukwazi the London publisher Slightly Foxed and the edtech organization MakeTomorrow. In 2016 Richard collaborated with the Trantraal Brothers to create Safety Justice and Peoples Power an illustrated companion to the ORegan-Pikoli Commission of Inquiry into policing in Khayelitsha. SAAID RAHBEENI lives in Maitland Cape Town. A freelance illustrator with decades of experience he previously worked for the Educational Support Services Trust Jincom Strika Entertainment and MTE Studios. His drawings appear in a range of school textbooks published by Pearson Pan Macmillan and Oxford University Press among others and he has also contributed to the Our Story series by South African Heritage Publishers. Saaid illustrated Chapter 1 Until the Ship Sails. THE TRANTRAAL BROTHERS André and Nathan are a sibling-illustrator duo who grew up in the Cape Town township of Mitchells Plain before moving to Bishop Lavis. They have published numerous cartoons and graphic works including Coloureds (2010) and Crossroads (20142020 written by Koni Benson). Independently André has written and illustrated the childrens book series Keegan and Samier. Nathan has published three poetry collections in Kaapsearning him numerous awards including the 2013 Ingrid Jonker Prize and the 2020 SALA Poetry Awardas well as a collection of his columns as published in the Afrikaans newspaper Rapport. The Trantraal Brothers illustrated Chapter 2 In the Shadow of a High Stone Wall. LIZ CLARKE lives in Cape Town where she works as an illustrator. She has contributed to the genre of graphic history internationally and her work is featured in seven books published by Oxford University Press USAincluding Witness to the Age of Revolution (written by Charles F. Walker) which won the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Nonfiction Graphic Novels and Abina and the Important Men (written by Trevor R. Getz) which won the American Historical Associations James Harvey Robinson Prize. Liz illustrated Chapter 3 Come Gallows Grim. DADA KHANYISA is an Umzimkhulu-born Johannesburg-raised Cape Town-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of technology and contemporary social culture with respect to the Black experience. In 2016 they (Dadas preferred pronoun) were awarded the Simon Gerson Prize and a year later completed a commission for a 35-metre mural on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. In 2018 the Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town presented Dadas first solo exhibition Bambiphone followed up two years later by the Johannesburg show Good Feelings. Dada illustrated Chapter 4 The Widow of Marabastad. TUMI MAMABOLO hails from Polokwane in Limpopo province. He cant remember a time when he wasnt avidly drawing and painting usually a comic or graphic novel from his own imagination. Since graduating with a degree in Information Design from the University of Pretoria in 2020 he has already won two Gold Loerie awards for his animation work. Still in his early twenties Tumi is the youngest of the All Rise contributors having illustrated Chapter 5 A House Divided. MARK MODIMOLA was born in Pretoria of Sotho-Tsonga parentage. Originally a graphic designer he studied at the University of Pretoria and later pursued a Fulbright Scholarship in the United States before returning to South Africa determined to illustrate full-time. Mark is a prolific and versatile creator with a portfolio that explores African identity and spirituality often through the cultural aesthetic of Afrofuturism. He illustrated Chapter 6 Here I Cross to the Other Side honouring and drawing inspiration from his Sotho migrant ancestry.