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Cartoon Events at the Cape Town Book Fair

This year's fifth anniversary of the Cape Town Book Fair has some exciting events on offer for cartoon enthusiasts. The fair will be held once again at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, from Saturday 31st July through to Monday 2nd August. Friday, July 30th has been set aside for the trade. 

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Posted on Jul 31, 2010 by Africartoons

Cartoons for Mandela Day

Iziko Slave Lodge has invited visitors to see the ground-breaking exhibition entitled Mandela – Leader; Comrade; Negotiator; Prisoner; and Statesman – for free on Sunday, 18 July, from 10:00 until 17:00, in celebration of International Mandela Day on the icon's birthday. Also exhibited is a collection of Zapiro cartoons about Mandela, entitled 'Drawing on Mandela'.

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Posted on Jul 18, 2010 by Africartoons

Zakumi turns 16 on Youth Day

Helen Zille arrested for trademark infringement

Zakumi, the strange green-maned cartoon leopard that has landed the dream job of mascot for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, turned 16 yesterday, according to his Wikipedia entry. However he is far from being a 'sweet sixteen' year-old if stories doing the rounds are to be believed.

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Posted on Jun 17, 2010 by Africartoons

Cartoonists Get Behind the Soccer

Corrupt politicians, dodgy business persons and lazy public servants will all benefit from at least a partial reprieve from local cartoonists who have shifted their focus towards the Soccer World Cup, and joined the rest of South Africa in a mood of patriotic goodwill.

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Posted on Jun 11, 2010 by Africartoons

Lampooning Religion

By Nathan Geffen

There are two questions to answer about Jonathan Shapiro’s cartoon of the Prophet Muhammed: (1) did he have a right to publish it and (2) should he have published it?

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Posted on Jun 07, 2010 by Africartoons

WHO LET THE DOG OUT?

The guys behind Madam & Eve chase new markets

Stephen Francis & Rico Schacherl, creators of “Madam & Eve” have launched a new cartoon strip, aimed at the international market.

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Posted on Jun 07, 2010 by Africartoons

The Doctor is 'Out' (for now)

By John Curtis

Dr Jack has drawn his final editorial cartoon for the Pretoria News, after a 17 year long relationship in which he has seen more editors come and go than he would care to remember.

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Posted on Jun 01, 2010 by Africartoons

Moving a cartoon from the North Pole to Boulders

Gavin Thomson shares the thought process behind the creation of his latest cartoon

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Posted on Jun 01, 2010 by Africartoons

DOV FEDLER'S 'ZIBI' IS NO HAS BIN!

FAMOUS OSTRICH TAKES FLIGHT ONCE MORE

ZIBI, the litter busting ostrich created by cartoonist Dov Fedler in 1979 to inspire a nation to “Zappit in the Zibi Bin”, has been brought out of retirement by the City of Cape Town in a 3 year rights deal with the cartoonist, and with an option to extend the flightless bird’s contract even further.

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Posted on May 29, 2010 by Africartoons

ZAPIRO ON THE COUCH

BY JOHN CURTIS

The Mail & Guardian Online has released a teaser to Zapiro’s much anticipated response to the criticism he and the newspaper have received since the publication last week of a cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad.

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Posted on May 28, 2010 by Africartoons