I GOT MY START IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA.
I joined the ad business in South Africa, working for an agency on the top floor of the tallest building in Johannesburg. Off to an exciting start. You better believe it. One day in 1976 we watched from our high white perch as huge clouds of smoke curled in the distance. It was the Soweto Uprising: cops killing black school children by the hundreds. Welcome to advertising under fascism. You’re in the Wild West, except the bad guys always win.
