Gavin Jantjes
- Gavin Jantjes was born in 1948 in District Six, Cape Town.
- He is a South African painter, curator, writer, and lecturer.
- He left apartheid South Africa in 1970 on a DAAD scholarship to study at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg from 1970 to
- He was a founding member of the German anti-apartheid movement and was granted political asylum in Germany in 1973.
- He worked as a consultant visual campaign director for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1978 to 1982. In 1979, he published A South African Colouring Book, which consisted of eleven collaged serigraphs exploring apartheid in the format of a child’s colouring book.