Today is Freedom Day in South Africa! Here is a typically insightful (and scathing) Zapiro cartoon. 

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New updates on the struggle for free expression in South Africa. PEN submitted a brief to the UN in November 2011 on press freedom and other issues in the country.

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“It is this extraordinary photograph that is the centrepiece in a new book of [Cedric] Nunn’s work called Call and Response.” 

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Zapiro’s latest cartoon on the political challengers in South Africa to president Jacob Zuma. Zapiro is a member of South African PEN. For our interview with him (and why Zuma has a shower on his head), click here. 

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An image from Brett Murray’s exhibit “Hail to the Thief”, which is causing an uproar in South Africa. Amandla was the spiritual cry of the anti-apartheid movement. Murray’s show includes a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his penis exposed.

© Brett Murray

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Vandals painted over a satirical painting of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma with his penis exposed, in a case that will test the strength of free expression in the Constitution.

(via BBC News - Jacob Zuma painting vandalised in South Africa gallery)

fictionthatmatters:

As the controversy over Brett Murray’s depiction of President Jacob Zuma rages on, the Mail & Guardian offers a thoughtful roundup of other art debates that have touched South Africa—from a boyish depiction of Shaka to a painting of Nelson Mandela on an autopsy table.

(via Fine art and fragile egos - Mail & Guardian Online)

returnofthedeji:

South African lit mag Jungle Jim and the Boundless Heart Foundation are having a fire sale in Cape Town on 6/6.

Zapiro’s latest zinger of a cartoon on Brett Murray’s piece “Spear of the Nation.” Murray’s painting, which depicted President Jacob Zuma naked, was vandalized following an uproar by the ruling ANC party. We interviewed Zapiro here at PEN American Center earlier this year.

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Cartoon © Zapiro