During our trip to South Africa a couple of years back, we were mentored, shown around and generally made to feel extremely welcome by leading South African cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, who goes by the pen-name of Zapiro.
Whilst we were there the (now ex-) Vice President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma was hitting the headlines over numerous allegations of sleaze (see my cartoons on this here). After our return he was also charged (and remarkably, acquitted) of the rape of a 31-year old HIV+ family friend. Anyway, it now turns out that Zuma is sueing Zapiro (along with a number of newspapers, editors, reporters, radio stations and publishers). Zapiro is being sued by Zuma for three cartoons he thinks that “injured [Zuma] in his dignity and his reputation”. Read the rest of this entry…
…for another two weeks, until 2nd December. So, if you’ve not seen it yet, there’s plenty of time to get down there!
Well, here we are, the hangover’s passed and we’re back to normal again… Read the rest of this entry…
and it’s the Private View tomorrow night… I’l l be going down, and taking my camera with me, so hopefully a few pics on the site by the weekend.
In the meantime, I nearly had an interview on BBC4 News, but they changed the date from Thursday to Friday, and I won’t be around. Should be a spot with a couple of the other cartoonists on Friday night though…
The Times – ‘The Pen Is Mightier Than The Word’
21st November 2005 | by AlexJust a quick one – the TransAtlant-ink show opens on Wednesday, and there’s been an article in today’s Times about it.




