Posts Tagged ‘spades’
South African Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, was appointed President of the African National Congress, effectively ensuring him as a shoe-in for the Presidency next year, despite the on-gooing controversies in his personal life, from financial irregularities to his recently acquitted rape trial, where he admitted that his defence against AIDS was, er, to have a [...]
Card-i-cature a week… Week 45 – General Pervez Musharraf (the Eight of Spades)
by Alex on 8th November 2007 at 6:41 pmWeek 45 – and General Pervez Musharraf, who siezed power in a military coup in Pakistan in 1999, but yet is still an ally in the War on Terror, was in the news this week for declaring emergency rule in Pakistan, imposing a State of Emergency, suspending the Constitution, firing the Chief Justice of the [...]
Card-i-cature a week… Week 43 – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (The Two of Spades)
by Alex on 25th October 2007 at 8:13 pmWeek 43, and for the Two of Spades it’s King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who this week was preparing to visit the UK for the first visit of a Saudi monarch in 20 years. The visit was contraversial for a number of reasons, from Saudi Arabia’s disregard for human rights and use of capital punishment, [...]
Card-i-cature a week… Week 41 – Al Gore (The Four of Spades)
by Alex on 11th October 2007 at 6:06 pmWeek 41 – and this week it’s former US Vice President and technically-president (if you count the votes properly) and now Nobel Prize for Peace winner Al Gore… assuming there’s no re-count
Card-i-cature a week… Week 39 – Aung San Suu Kyi (the Seven of Spades)
by Alex on 27th September 2007 at 6:58 pmWeek 39, and this week I’ve chosen Nobel prize winner, democracy campaigner, and (technically at least) president of Burma, who made a rare public appearance to support the protesting monks from her home where she has been under house arrest by the military junta.



