Notes

Property of the Late Toy Mostert

Toy (Albertus Bernardus) Mostert (1939–2021) was a well-known and much-loved sports journalist as well as a sports promoter during the late sixties and early seventies. He helped to build the careers of star footballers Jomo Sono and Kaizer Motaung, and champion heavyweight boxer Gerrie Coetzee.

After the politically fraught 1967 Springbok rugby tour to France, Toy published the book Rugby en Veldslag: Franse Toer 1967 (Voortrekkerpers, Johannesburg). In 1975, Toy, Jomo Sono and another partner opened the first KFC outlet in Soweto. They built the business up and six years later they had 46 branches. Toy and his wife Cecilia were avid and eclectic art collectors, delighting in acquiring works by both major and lesser-known twentieth-century South African artists.

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Provenance

The Toy Mostert Collection.