Thank you everyone, for your responses.
To be honest… I was overwhelmed with frustration over the way so many people reacted to this cartoon and weighed down at how sensitive people can be when it comes to certain individuals. That is the reason I did this article yesterday but couldn’t write much and just waited for bloggers’ reactions and opinions.
Now I suppose its old news… But personally I think this sketch is
ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS! Yet controversial.
I have to admit, after having a good hard laugh, I also thought, for a little while there, that maybe Zapiro has gone a bit too far but then I thought he’s been doing this long enough to know how far to go…
I’m not a Zuma fan and I doubt I’ll ever be…but missing the humour in this drawing is
not only ignorant, but its arrogant too..
Jonathan Shapiro is a great cartoonist and one of South Africa’s very few high-quality journalists. He’s been cartooning issues in South Africa and around the world for a very long time and he knows exactly which buttons to press...that my only words to him right now are...
"well done! good job! they needed to see exactly how society sees them.. and no better way to do it than this... Look at them, running up and down...hi hi hi hi hi...now lets work on next week's graphic...hi hi hi hi.... "
He always used to draw Manto’s face as a garlic bulb and everyone found it funny, right?? Now when its Zuma raping Lady Justice it’s referred to as “racist”
Black people should get over themselves… Just because you were hurt by one Verwoerd twenty years ago, it doesn’t mean every white man is out to kill you.
It just goes to show how LSM 1 our country’s politics actually are compared to the rest of the world… Barak Obama’s face was put on Paris Hilton’s body not so long ago… Was that racist?
The only way to describe the ANC’s reaction is that it is defense mechanism… they know how true the cartoon is, and fully understand that it is a true reflection of the present state of affairs but I suppose Nnete e a baba.
We are going on and on about how it was “distasteful and borders defamation of character” that we are missing the message in the cartoon. Isn’t it just sad how menial and petty our so called politicians can be? I actually wont be surprised if Jonathan can be found dead one of these days… yes, they’ve sworn “to eliminate remnants of counter-revolution”
