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Learn More about Erik Thamm

Biography

Erik Thamm (or Etam) worked as a cartoonist for the Afrikaans language newspaper Die Transvaler from 1946-1973. Thamm was born in Estonia and was interned in a POW camp during WWII. His political cartooning was mainly aligned with the ideologies of the apartheid state.