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SIFISO YALO was given his first break by Cyril Madlala, editor of the weekly Zulu language newspaper UmAfrika. He fine-tuned his skills at Andy Mason’s Artworks Publishing Company (which has…>

'Burning Issues': Africartoons.com
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© Yalo | Jul 07, 2011 | Sowetan

Burning Issues

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: Now is the Winter of their Discontent, and the protesting residents of Tshiawelo in Soweto are making their grievances known. Objecting to the installation of prepaid electricity meters which they say subsidise the electricity usage of non paying areas, the protesters first held ten Eskom employees hostage, then vandalised the meters, before escalating their protest by burning to the ground the houses of two local councillors.