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Anthony Stidolph (STIDY) was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) and grew up on a remote farm in the Nyanga District.

He was educated at Umtali Boys High School…>

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  1. STIDY: BEARING WITNESS

    On February 27th, 2013, ‘The Witness’ celebrated its 167th birthday. It was the year of another auspicious anniversary — the 175th year since the founding of Pietermaritzburg; the city the newspaper has served since its launch. To mark these anniversaries, the newspaper invited their longstanding cartoonist, STIDY (Anthony Stidolph), to write about his time at the newspaper and, especially, the pleasure of focusing his sharp eye on the city.

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    Posted on Feb 27, 2013

  2. The Funny Business of Cartooning

    Dov Fedler in his studio

    Laughter might be the best medicine, but when it’s at the expense of the powerful, it becomes a political tool, writes Joanna Wright in the January edition of The Media Magazine .

    She notes that cartoonists make us laugh, make us think – and make politicians mad, and she invites some of South Africa’s leading cartoonists to explain just why this is so.

    Read HERE to see what Dov Fedler (pictured above), Stidy, Jerm, Yalo, Rico, Len Sack and Andy Mason have to say about their trade. 

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    Posted on Jan 22, 2013

  3. Cartoonists stand against media restrictions

    BY JOHN CURTIS


    South Africa’s top editorial cartoonists have banded together to protest against the government’s intended press restrictions.

    In rejecting the proposed Protection of Information Bill and Media Tribunal, they have warned that these restrictions will erode the right to freedom of expression achieved by the country’s hard fought struggle for democracy.

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    Posted on Aug 12, 2010

  4. DON'T BURST OUR SPEECH BUBBLE!

    PLEASE sign our petition for free speech for SA cartoonists

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    Posted on Sep 01, 2010

  5. Book Launch. You're invited...

    To the Stellenbosch launch of 'Don't Joke!' The Year in Cartoons on Thurs, 15th April, 2010, 17h30 for 16h00 at the  Visual Arts Department, Victoria St, University of Stellenbosch.

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    Posted on Apr 09, 2010

  6. Cartoon Book Flies off Shelves

    PUBLISHERS ORDER 2nd IMPRINT OF POPULAR BOOK

    'Don't Joke! The Year in Cartoons' - the inaugural annual of South African editorial cartoons - has sold so well since it was launched last December that the book's publishers, Jacana Media, have ordered a reprint in anticipation of stocks running out in two month's time.

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    Posted on Apr 09, 2010

  7. WITH A JIBE AND A JAVELINE

    SA CARTOONISTS DEFENDING THEIR DEMOCRACY

    Book review by Francois Verster (Bolander Newspaper).

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    Posted on Mar 27, 2010

  8. Book review by Kevin Ritchie, The Star

    WHEN WE THINK OF CARTOONS in South Africa, particularly those of us who live in Joburg, we tend to never think much further than the peerless Zapiro, or the quintessential northern suburbs Madame and Eve, but cartooning is alive and well in this country - and here's a book that proves it.

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    Posted on Mar 24, 2010

  9. 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.

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    Posted on Mar 08, 2010

  10. MANDELA CARTOONS: 20 Years of Freedom

    Mandela Cartoons: 20 Years of freedomTwenty 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.

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    Posted on Feb 09, 2010