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Cartoonists to Gather in Durban
CARTOONISTS from Johannesburg and Cape Town will be joining their Durban counterparts this weekend and all who are interested in editorial cartooning are invited to join them.
More…Many hands make light work...
HOW SIX CARTOONISTS COLLABORATED TO CREATE A CARTOON...
More…ZA News comes to TV
THE SATIRICAL life sized puppet show created by cartoonist Zapiro and produced by Thierry Cassuto will finally be flighted on TV after being canned two years ago by the SABC, who had co-funded the show's pilot to the tune of R1 million.
Last year, the show took to the internet, changing its name from Z News to ZA News, and is currently in its second season after a hugely successful first. You can view it by visiting Africartoon's YouTube Africhannel.
More…ZA News returns!
Following its groundbreaking first season, the satirical online newscast ZA News is back at last – with new puppet characters, a brand new website, new skits and more irreverence than ever!
More…Treknet turns five!
Treknet, the newspaper cartoon strip about the adventures of two fishermen Boet and John, has blossomed from a weekly strip in a local rag to a nationally syndicated daily strip now appearing in 22 publications extending to Namibia and all the way to Sweden.
More…Zapiro at the Slave Lodge (11 Feb - 18 April, 2010)
"Drawing on Madiba" is a professionally curated exhibition of cartoons by Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) currently on show at the Iziko Slave Lodge complimenting the greater exhibition entitled "Mandela - Leader, Comrade, Negotiator, Prisoner, Statesman" at the same venue.
More…MANDELA CARTOONS: 20 Years of Freedom
Twenty years ago when Nelson Mandela walked free, the world's cartoonists waited with bated breath and pens poised wondering what he would look like.
It had been 27 years since their reference photographs were taken, and his image had been banned by the apartheid government since. They also wondered what line his politics would take.
More…JOKES ASIDE, THIS BOOK ROCKS!
Book Review by Katja Hamilton, Ground Zero gumstick.wordpress.comDecember 19, 2009
Looking back over the past year it’s amazing to see just how the political landscape in South Africa and abroad has shifted and changed; old regimes have disappeared as if cajoled by quicksand and new leaders have risen to a new order.
More…MANDELA: Twenty Years of Freedom
FEB 11, 2010 will mark the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison. To mark the occasion Africartoons will be launching an exhibition of selected cartoons depicting highlights of the past twenty years entitled MANDELA: Twenty Years of Freedom.
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