Zapiro's Leyden Tribute

LEYDEN WITH PARALLELS: Zapiro recycles a 1973 cartoon by the talented Jock Leyden to demonstrate frightening parallels between government interference with the media under the apartheid era rule of John Vorster, and that of the incumbent President Jacob Zuma. Almost exactly four years after the original Leyden cartoon was drawn, state regulation of the press reached its zenith with the banning of certain newspaper titles on a day - October 19th, 1977 - which would henceforth be remembered as Black Wednesday. Zapiro's cartoon marks that date and also sounds a warning bell that we are headed in the same direction.