Tagged as: zapiro

/wp-content/uploads/tdc-images/zapiro-india.jpgIndia Times reports that several organizations are calling for a boycott of South Africa by the Indian cricket team because of a cartoon by Sunday Times editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”). The cartoon features Cricket South Africa CEO about to be sacrificed on an alter in front of the Indian god Ganesha (labeled Indian Cricket […]

Pat Bagley on the current economic standoff.I like his graphic invocation of “The American People Are On Our Side.” Yes, they are, except for the majority who voted in favor of the Other Guy last November. The whole idea of sequestration was that it proposed a solution so horrendous that cooler heads would prevail before it […]

South African President Jacob Zuma has withdrawn his lawsuit against Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro) ending a four year case wherein Zuma alleged that a cartoon depicting him preparing to rape Lady Justice was defamation and impaired his dignity.Zuma contends that dropping the suit avoids setting a negative precedent: “The president… would like to avoid setting […]

South African President Jacob Zuma has dropped his four-year-old lawsuit against cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) for a cartoon that had shown him raping the nation’s justice system.As this cartoon indicates, Zapiro has not decided to shake hands and become friends.As the web site Africartoons says, this is a happy ending to the immediate problem and […]

Last week a Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro) cartoon ran in the Mail and Guardian depicting South African President Jacob Zuma as a penis. For context, the BBC explains that the African National Congress forced an art gallery to remove a painting of President Zuma with exposed genitals which touched off a debate about free expression […]

There’s a thing going around — oh, sorry — got to start over …There’s a meme – which is much more important than “a thing going around” — that exists under a few different names, but which can be tracked down by Googling “Superman is kind of a dick.”  It consists of covers of old DC […]

Stick with me on this one, because, while for most visitors here, South Africa is a world away geographically and pretty remote in other ways as well, the ongoing squabbles between cartoonist Zapiro and President Jacob Zuma are an important study in press freedom and responsible political commentary.The latest news is that, although Zuma was […]

A commission with a really, really long name (“Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities”) has taken issue with Jonathan Shapiro’s (AKA Zapiro) continued use of a shower head drawn above South Africa President Jacob Zuma. The group calls it “culturally, religiously and linguistically unprecedented to attack […]

Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro) has once again depicted South African president Jacob Zuma preparing to rape a woman. This cartoon depicts Zuma with iconic shower head in front of a woman labeled “Free Speech” being held by the ANC with Lady Justice (the target of the last rape cartoon) warning Free Speech “Fight, sister, fight!”The […]

In the wake of nationwide municipal elections, South Africa’s Jeremy “Jerm” Nell provides a reminder that not everyone lives in a place where a smooth-running election is traditional.Which means life is getting harder for the nation’s political cartoonists. President Jacob Zuma’s threatened lawsuit against cartoonist Zapiro for defamation seems to have drifted off into the […]

South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (AKA “Zapiro”) is fighting two lawsuits lodged against him by South African President Jacob Zuma for what is claimed offensive cartoons. Combined, the two defamation suits seek damages up to 7 million. Not only is Zapiro fighting those suits, he’s also fighting against a government initiative that would “seek […]

The South African Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint brought by the Young Communist League and its national secretary Buti Manamela alleging that the “Lady Justice” editorial cartoon by Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”) depicting the now President of South Africa Jacob Zuma readying to rape Lady Justice. The commission found the cartoon was “free, open, […]