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Zuma sues Zapiro

By 6000 | 6000 | December 14, 2010

From Times Live: In a summons issued in the Johannesburg High Court on Friday, Zuma began proceedings against Avusa Media, former Sunday Times editor-in-chief Mondli Makhanya and world-renowned cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, known as Zapiro. Good. In court papers, Zuma said the cartoon, published on September 7 2008, damaged his reputation, was degrading and left him [...]

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Zapiro – who can I annoy this time?

By 6000 | 6000 | April 9, 2009

After the whole “Zuma raping Justice” cartoon furore, things have died down a little for rogue cartoonist Jonathan “Zapiro” Shapiro. We’ve hearly heard a peep from him over the last few months. What a pleasure. So it was about time he came up with a plan to irritate some group or other and get himself [...]

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Where I lead…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 11, 2008

…the South African Human Rights Commission follows. SAHRC Chair, Jody Kollapen on the Zapiro cartoon furore: The view of the Commission is that while the cartoon captures a significant political and social issue within society today — on the role of the judiciary and its place in society — the cartoon may well have gone [...]

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That Zapiro cartoon

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2008

Ever since The Sunday Times published the “rape” cartoon that the entirety of South Africa is now talking about (that would be Sunday), I have been literally inundated with an email asking what 6000 miles… readers should say when asked about it, in order to remain “on message”. This cartoon was removed at the request of [...]

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