Publication: Cape Argus Issued: Date: 2008-09-08 Reporter: Xolani Mbanjwa

ANC Fury at 'Racist' Zuma Cartoon

 

Publication 

Cape Argus
Date

2008-09-08
Reporter Xolani Mbanjwa

Web Link

www.capeargus.co.za




Fury has erupted over a "racist" cartoon depicting ruling party leader Jacob Zuma about to rape Justice - a blindfolded woman - as the leaders of the ANC and its allies hold her down.

ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said this morning that the cartoon, which appeared in the Sunday Times yesterday, was "racist".

"The message that the cartoon is sending out is that the African leaders are holding Justice down and assisting the (ANC) president in raping her.

"We, as the leaders in the cartoon, are all African and this shows that the media, which is mostly managed by white people, does not have respect for the ruling party and its new leadership," he said.

The cartoon, by Zapiro (award-winning cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro), shows leaders of the ANC, the ANC Youth League, SACP and Cosatu pinning down Justice while Zuma is undoing his pants *1.

Mantashe is saying to Zuma: "Go for it, boss."

ANCYL leader Julius Malema said the cartoon was "disturbing".

"I received many calls from comrades. I don't normally read the newspapers but I had to see it for myself. How do you show someone like Zuma raping a woman?

"These are hostile media forces who are deliberately distorting our support for Zuma." *2

With acknowledgements to Xolani Mbanjwa and Cape Argus.


*1       This is very disturbing.

But so are the ANC's unbridled and ongoing attacks on the judiciary.

Cartoonist Zapiro is not a racist. Indeed he fought with his pens against the previous regime that was racist.


*2      Neither is Sunday Times Editor Mondli Makhanya a racist.

I do not personally know Mondli Makhanya, but my impression is that he equally hostile to anyone to attempts to subvert South Africa's hard-won democracy.

He also calls the shots about the content of the Sunday Times.


In my view and regarding the nonsensical and hysterical attempts to procure that I do not get my days in court to testify against Accused 1 to Accused 3 regarding their days in court answering charges of bribery, corruption, money laundering, racketeering and fraud, the following are forces hostile to the revolution that gave us a glimmer of hope for true democracy :


The last 13 persons, natural and juristic, are prima facie clearly in contravention of Section 217 of the Constitution.

So were persons like Joe Modise and Richard Charter, but they have gone to meet the Great Arbiter in the Sky.