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Brett Murray talks at Africartoons Exhibit of Spear cartoons

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Fine artist and satirist Brett Murray, the painter of the controversial portrait of President Zuma titled The Spear, was a special guest of africartoons at the exhibition of Spear Cartoons we curated as part of the co/MIX Day at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town last weekend. Also at the event were africartoonists Brandan, Chip, Deni Brown, Gavin Thomson, Stent and Zapiro, whose work was on display at the exhibition and as part of africartoons' slide presentation of Julius Malema cartoons.

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Posted on Sep 30, 2012 by Africartoons

And the Winner is... ZAPIRO

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(AGAIN!)

Despite the judges' observation that the general standard of editorial cartoons has improved over the years, Jonathan Shapiro (pen named ZAPIRO) has once again emerged as the winner of a national award acknowledging his class after his cartoon was adjudicated to be the best by judges of the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards (editorial cartoons category). Zapiro has been the recipient of the award before, going back to its previous incarnation as part of the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards.

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Posted on Sep 17, 2012 by Africartoons

Grogan's Crack of Dawn

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GROGAN'S 'CRACK OF DAWN' Cartoons appear nationwide every morning in the Independent Newspaper titles. Here are a some of his recent ones...

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Posted on Sep 13, 2012 by Grogan

Pimp My Spear

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HANGING OUT AT THE GALLERY: Another portrait of a naked President Zuma is causing a stir, following the drama created by Brett Murray's 'The Spear'. The latest version, by Ayanda Mabulu, chucks out the spear as inspiration for his work 'Umshini Wam (Weapon of Mass Destruction)' and replaces it with the president's weapon of choice; a machine gun. Predictably, cartoonists have responded enthusiastically to the development.

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Posted on Sep 03, 2012 by Africartoons

Mgobhozi's Zuma cartoon causes an uproar

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“This is the work of President Zuma, and here is a picture of President Zuma destroying the pillars of our constitution". With these provocative words, and brandishing a cartoon by Wilson MGOBHOZI, Cultural Affairs and Sport MEC Ivan Meyer (of the DA), launched a vicious attack on the country's ruling party and its president in the Western Cape legislature last week.

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Posted on Aug 30, 2012 by Africartoons

Jerm's Sunday Timers

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Posted on Aug 23, 2012 by Africartoons

Cartoon Moratorium

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IT DIDN'T FEEL RIGHT when we began uploading cartoons on Friday morning after seeing the horrific events which occurred at Marikana Mine the day before,

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Posted on Aug 17, 2012 by Africartoons

Dr Jack's Lofty

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ARGENTINA joins the Tri-Nations Rugby Tournament this year, to make it a truly global Rugby Championship. Perhaps the Six Nations could be used as a qualifier to see which of the northern hemisphere nations are worthy of competing against these four southern hemisphere giants? DR JACK welcomes the newcomers with his Pretoria News character.

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Posted on Aug 17, 2012 by Dr Jack

Caster Semenya

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Title: The fastest woman with a "Why?" Chromosome.SEE CARTOONOGRAPHY

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Posted on Aug 11, 2012 by Africartoons

Oscar Pistorius

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NICKNAME: Blade RunnerTITLE: "The fastest man on no legs"SEE CARTOONOGRAPHY

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Posted on Aug 11, 2012 by Africartoons