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News: May 2012

TRENDING THEMES

SKA [Cartoons on the Square Kilometre Array]

THE SPEAR[Cartoons on The Spear, The Smear, The Tear & The Fear]

BHEKI CELE[His career in cartoons]

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Posted on May 29, 2012 by Africartoons

Zuma Defaced

AND DISMEMBERED

Brett Murray's controversial portrait of President Zuma With Unsheathed Genitalia has given rise to dozens of editorial cartoons since it was first exposed by City Press. Since then, the President, his family, his party and his government have conspired to place the story firmly on the front page by threatening legal action to have the painting removed and destroyed.

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Posted on May 23, 2012 by Africartoons

The Clifton Trawler

WHEN A JAPANESE FISHING TRAWLER washed up on one of Clifton's pristine beaches, many Capetonians seized the opportunity to visit it, and witness the numerous attempts to refloat the large boat and its cargo of tuna. Four Cape Town based cartoonists saw it as another opportunity (their first since the recent centenary of the Sinking of the Titanic), to draw a boat - if only they could work it into another relevant story. And a Cape Town based photographer made this beautiful stop action video of the trawler's short visit to our shores [thanks for sharing this, JERM!].

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Posted on May 19, 2012 by Africartoons

The Cost of Living is No Laughing Matter

UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE A CARTOONIST

Heavy taxation, increasing food costs, education fees, toll roads, and price hikes in electricity, water, rates weigh heavilly on the average South African. Fortunately, cartoonists are there to bring a lighter side to a heavy situation, as these cartoons will show.

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Posted on May 09, 2012 by Africartoons