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South African Artist Receives Threatening Letter: Twenty-eight year old South African artist, Cyril Fradan, who has depicted in his paintings the suffering of Africans under apartheid, said yesterday I am afraid for may life. He found a letter waiting for him at the Woodstook Galleries in the West End, where 20 of his canvases are now on show. The letter was addressed to Communist Fradan , and warned him to stop helping coloured people or face what the niggers got an Sharpeville . The focal point of Fradan s exhibition is a large abstract representing the agony of the 69 Africans killed in the Sharpeville shootings last year. Africans killed in the Sharpeville shooting last year. Photo Shows: Cyril Fradan pictured yesterday at the Woodstock Galleries. - ZUMAk09

South African Artist Receives Threatening Letter: Twenty-eight year old South African artist, Cyril Fradan, who has depicted in his paintings the suffering of Africans under apartheid, said yesterday I am afraid for may life. He found a letter waiting for him at the Woodstook Galleries in the West End, where 20 of his canvases are now on show. The letter was addressed to Communist Fradan , and warned him to stop helping coloured people or face what the niggers got an Sharpeville . The focal point of Fradan s exhibition is a large abstract representing the agony of the 69 Africans killed in the Sharpeville shootings last year. Africans killed in the Sharpeville shooting last year. Photo Shows: Cyril Fradan pictured yesterday at the Woodstock Galleries. - ZUMAk09

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Recording Date: May 5, 1961

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May 05, 1961 - South African Artist Receives Threatening Letter: Twenty-eight year old South African artist, Cyril Fradan, who has depicted in his paintings the suffering of Africans under apartheid, said yesterday I am afraid for may life. He found a letter waiting for him at the Woodstook Galleries in the West End, where 20 of his canvases are now on show. The letter was addressed to Communist Fradan , and warned him to stop helping coloured people or face what the niggers got an Sharpeville . The focal point of Fradan s exhibition is a large abstract representing the agony of the 69 Africans killed in the Sharpeville shootings last year. Africans killed in the Sharpeville shooting last year. Photo Shows: Cyril Fradan pictured yesterday at the Woodstock Galleries. - ZUMAk09

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