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Jonathan Shapiro – better know as Zapiro – has taken another massive dig at Jacob Zuma which may well see him getting slapped with another lawsuit by the president.

You may recall the below cartoon that caused a massive stir in government a few years ago and led to JZ taking out a lawsuit against Zapiro faster than you can say political satire.

© 2008-2011 Zapiro (All rights reserved) Printed with permission from www.zapiro.com For more Zapiro cartoons visit www.zapiro.com

The cartoon – depicting the Zuma unbuckling his trousers whilst various ANC bigwigs (and Malema) held down lady justice – was published around the time of the presidents rape trial and prompted Mr Zuma to file for R15-million as he felt it was an attack on his dignity. Any right-minded person could see that it was in fact nothing more than a depiction of the lengths to which various ANC people were going to ensure that allegations of corruption, rape, tender rigging etc would not be subjected to the countries laws.

Either way, JZ didn’t like it and although he’s dropped the claim to around R5-million now, he’s still going after Zapiro.

Which makes todays Mail & Guardian cartoon all the more daring and in TheFrenchConnection’s opinion all the more relevant. There is a massive drive from government to bulldoze the new protection of information bill through parliament and once again, anybody who has an ounce of sense can plainly tell that this is nothing more than an attempt to try and scare the media away from whistle-blowing and exposing corruption, particularly at governement level.

Not that they would ever effectively cover it up. They only need to look at the recent uprisings to the north of the continent in places like Egypt to see that no matter how hard you try, you will never stop the spread of information on the World Wide Watchdog. And you’ll never close down Twitter either Floyd.

Anyway – for all of our entertainment pleasure, check out Zapiro’s latest stab at the top dogs.

© 2008-2011 Zapiro (All rights reserved) Printed with permission from www.zapiro.com For more Zapiro cartoons visit www.zapiro.com

Brilliant.

Women’s Minister Lulu Xingwana proposed a new bill in parliament yesterday that would basically give the government the powers to “force” companies to appoint women to 50% of all top positions. You can read the article here.

Now this ideal is nothing new and I’m sure that there are very few people out there who would agree that equal representation at board level is a scenario that we should all strive towards. However this is an IDEAL. Now before people start accusing me of sexism, let me state from the offset that this is not my point at all. The point is that allowing a government to interfere in the mechanisms of companies that employ thousands of people between them is surely counter-productive to their stated aim of reducing unemployment levels in this country.

This quota scenario simply sets the tone for rampant window-dressing which doesn’t help the “quota selection” and certainly doesn’t help the company and it’s employees. If you don’t appoint the best people to run a company, then you put that company at risk of failure. Which puts peoples jobs on the line. (more…)

In an expected turnaround, President Jacob Zuma has denied that he promised to serve only one term as ANC president shortly after he was elected at the party’s elective conference four years ago.

“I never said I would serve one term and I have never said that I would want two terms,” he said, The New Age reported on Wednesday.

This is bad news for SA as Zumas one term so far has been punctuated by Jobs for pals, cronyism, lack of leadership in many instances and corruption aplenty.

“I said a second term is a decision of the ANC but people twist it now. I have never defied the ANC. If the ANC said serve one term, that will be fine. I am a cadre of the ANC

via Zuma says he will do what the ANC wants – Times LIVE.

We are not inheritary racists, we have friends from all different races but in South Africa its extremey difficult to not think about race when the people in charge are constantly talking about race, constantly bringing up racism and constantly pointing fingers at people based on race all the while ignoring the fact that their incomes and their policys are influenced by their racist rants.

At Socialyz we have an enormous amount of articles surrounding JuJu and the ANC. Their election campaign had me vomiting on a daily basis and I couldn’t help but wonder who would actually vote for these idiots.

Their campaign was based on race. Are you black or white or coloured? Are you a boer? Actually yes I am white and my forefathers are boers and I think it’s disgusting that you tar all white people with the same brush. This goes both ways by the way. (more…)

White people should be treated as “criminals” for “stealing” land from black people, ANC Youth League president Julius Malema told an enthusiastic crowd in Kimberley yesterday where he appeared on the same platform as President Jacob Zuma.

This kind of blanket statement is very dangerous.

This is sure to attract some hate speech charges, as it’s clearly racist talk. This from the guy who claims he is not racist, yet there are racist utterings coming from him week after week. The ANC claim he was referring to a 1916 land grab by the then South African goverment. I think they give Malema too much credit. He is using obvious racist tactics to inflame his charges.

The ANC are quick to try and point out that casual obversers are generally stupid and have no knowledge of the past or electioneering tactics. The ANC celary do not give the average South African enough credit.

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I wrote an article on the King of Swaziland which featured a cartoon from www.Zapiro.com. On Socialyz we post about most things including political struggles. The Elections are coming up in May and Richard Hainebach over at Zapiro’s sent me a few cartoons which I thought I’d post.

© 2011 Zapiro (All rights reserved) Printed with permission from www.zapiro.com For more Zapiro cartoons visit www.zapiro.com

This cartoon features ANC leader , and our current president, Jacob Zuma delivering our easter eggs ( government, services, SAPS and ministers) the only problem is these eggs are all cracked. (more…)

Not to be outdone by events in Egypt and other places, members of the ANC are revolting against what they see as nepotism.

Surprise that!

Party members from Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga claim lists of nominated councillors include friends and relatives of the powerful, and not people chosen by the branches. (more…)

In what can only be descibed as preaching to the utterly brainwashed, President Zuma has again brought the religion card to the election table. Last time he said the ANC would rule until Jesus returned, this time its a lot more farcical. Anyone who is swayed by such drivel, or who would vote for a man who thinks his followers would be swayed by such drivel,  has some seriously head reading needed!

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In a pathetic display of ‘leadership’,  Jacob Zuma has shown his true colours yet again and cowarded out of doing anything about Malema.

You can read the article here.

This is very sad. It shows Zuma is little more than a talking head, and that Malema can do whatever he wants, namely, abuse women verbally, abuse journalists verbally, racially insult people, call for murder to happen on the streets of our land, support mass murdering regimes in the name of the ANC, defy the ANC constitution by insulting his leaders, misuse police time to get opposition supporters thrown out of a vote which his candidate won.

The list goes on.

Jacob Zuma, shame on you. What do you expect from one corrupt politician to the next. I hope the people of South African wake up now and do something (votes wise) to remove this rotten bunch from power.

I had to comment on this. I know there is a lot of  name calling and that kind of thing in South African Politics, but this is just plain ridiculous.

How are we supposed to take this kind of name calling seriously? It’s mind boggling that this was actually released into the press! It just in the usual vein of ANC spokesperson madness, like the Jesse Duarte rant [here], and the freedom of speech rant [here].

I personally think it is a valid argument that Zille has, and while I don’t know whether it’s the right thing to do to comment about it in public like she has, she has clearly won this little battle.

The ANC Youth League has launched its most personal attack yet on Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille in response to her remark that President Jacob Zuma has put his wives at risk of contracting HIV.

The league said it was “disgusted by remarks attributed to the racist girl Helen Zille, who when failing to defend her stupid and sexist decision to appoint predominantly white males into her Cabinet, attacks the president of the Republic of South Africa (sic)”.

No how exactly is this sexist? Newsflash but having unprotected sex and multiple partners is a sure fire way of spreading Aids, which is a pandemic. FACT.

Calling Zille a racist little girl is infantile and downright childish. How this ties in with her selecting a predominantly male cabinet is beyond me. Anyone who has unprotected sex with an HIV positive person puts their other sexual partners at risk.

“Zille has appointed an all male Cabinet of useless people, majority of whom are her boyfriends and concubines so that she can continue to sleep around with them, yet she claims to have the moral authority to question our president (sic).”

The Sowetan on Tuesday quoted Zille as saying: “Zuma is a self-confessed womaniser with deeply sexist views, who put all his wives at risk by having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman.”

How they can say that the majority of these men are her boyfriends is ridiculous. That they’re useless is a matter of opinion. Where the concubines fit into this story is lost on me. She selects these people so she can continue to ‘sleep around with them’?

Militant action

The remarks reportedly came in response to criticism from Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) Western Cape secretary Tony Ehrenreich on the composition of her provincial executive.

Zille is the only woman on the team.

The ANCYL threatened to take “militant action” against the premier.

Yawn. Maybe the ANCYL should get a gag order until someone of substance can be appointed to their press liason position?

Militant action again. Why not try something new? So anyone who doesn’t agree with the ANCYL is subject to militant action?

“If the fake racist girl Zille continues to speak hogwash like she has been doing during elections, we will take militant action against her, and demonstrate to her that she does not have monopoly over the Western Cape (sic),” it said.

“The fake racist girl who was dropped on a head as child should understand that South Africa will never be a Mickey-mouse republic like she wants to portray it (sic),” it added.

“An absolute majority of South Africans support President Jacob Zuma and will find it very disgusting for a fake racist apartheid agent to continue undermining the highest office in South Africa (sic).”

You see unfortunately for th ANCYL, an absolute majority also support Zille’s party in the Western Cape. So quite frankly she can choose whatever cabinet she wishes.It’s intersting to see she isn’t a ‘real racist’, rather a fake one, who was dropped on her head as a child. Its remarks such as this which could possibly be attributed to mickey mouse. Maybe whoever wrote these statements was smoking HUGE ROX?

ANC condemns Zille statement

The ANC has also condemned Zille’s statement, saying it was “astounded by the extraordinary attack by Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on the person of President Jacob Zuma.”

Zuma conceded during his rape trial in 2006 that he had had unprotected sex with his accuser, an HIV positive family friend, but said he had showered afterwards to minimise the risk of infection.

Asked for comment, Zille’s spokesperson Fritz de Klerk said a response was being drafted.

Sigh. Maybe these younguns should take a leaf out of Tokyo Sexwale’s book on how to handle the press?

Read more about that here.

This is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Still from the Zumanizer shoot

I listened to some ANC spokesperson dude chatting to a Times reporter about the Zuma Shower Gel Advert.You can listen to it below.

I wrote an article about this before which you can read here.

I had to listen to this TWICE just to make sure I heard it properly.  It seems to me that if you want to work for the ANC as a spokesperson in any manner, you need to know how to royally fuck up your public mutterings. Firstly I don’t know who this dude is that is being interviewed here, but I know he makes no sense.

He says the ANC are investigating taking legal advice. Is that not legal advice already? Or are they asking someone who isn’t involved in legal advice whether they should take some legal advice on this matter?

Dude I know English might not be your first language, but really, youre a SPOKESMAN. Surely you need to be qualified to be the ruling parties spokesperson. Oh hang on I forgot about the chop Jesse and her rant. Maybe all you need to be is blindly faithful to your handler leader. Maybe this dude is after her job? Listen to her rant here and judge her for yourself.

He carries on about the shower scene like its the rape case that is being referenced. It’s irrelevant he was aquitted, its the fact that he alluded to showering after having intercourse with an HIV positive person as being a normal thing to do, as opposed to perhaps getting tested for HIV/AIDS. Incidentally has he been tested? Should he really be getting it on with his wives without knowing? That just a wee bit irresponsible for a man in his position in a country with our problems.

He also says the ANC believe in freedom of speech, but with limits. Well then thats not really freedom of speech then is it? I actually dont know what else to call it, but I was always under the impression that freedom of speech meant freedom of speech. Its up to our sense of decency as to whether we say certain things or not, and our intellect whether we believe everything we see.

I can’t believe he didnt mention the COCAINE shown in the clip, that would have been my first observation. I think the reporter was trying to get him to pick up on that.

If you have been under a rock and havent seen the clip yet, you can check it out here (hurry before it’s taken down or something)

Laughitoff are aclso carrying this interview over on their site [here]. Thats where I got my picture from, thanks guys. They called it Zumanizer, haha, gotta love it.

Pretoria – The mighty ANC was on Saturday given a psychological blow when the final election results confirmed that it had lost its two-thirds majority.

Jacob Zuma’s party received 65.9% of the vote -the ANC’s weakest performance since the first democratic elections in 1994. That’s almost 4% less than in 2004.

The ANC’s Jeff Radebe said “We are very satisfied. It is a strong victory, we even got more than a million more votes than in 1994.”

He went on to say they are in ‘no way’ dissapointed. Seeing as this is the largest turn out since 1994 with many more voters casting their ballots than in the preceeding two elections, coupled with the fact than an increased population brings about an increased voter pool, a mere million more votes than 1994 doesn’t bode too well for the ruling party.

Analysts however, took a different view to the result than the ANC has taken publically. While this election victory may seem overwhelming, there are a few things that the opposition can be happy about.

As Professor Steven Friedman, a political analyst, says:

“This (the loss of the two-thirds majority) is a psychological victory for opposition parties and purely of symbolic value. The ANC will not admit it in public, but it shows they will have to work harder to retain voters.”

The ANC spent at least R200m on its campaign and more than 11 million people voted for them.

The DA got almost 17% support and Cope just over 7%.

The support the DA got this time around cannot be sneezed at, at close to 20% of the national vote, the opposition is growing and now it seems almost one in five of our demographic is voting for the official opposition.

Professor Sipho Seepe, another political commentator, said a DA government in the Western Cape was a threat to the ANC.

“The ANC will have to do better, because if the DA does well, voters will say ‘maybe we should give them (the DA) more provinces’.”

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE.

More than four million votes had been counted by 10.30am today according to the latest results at the election centre in Pretoria.

The African National Congress had 2,687,044 votes thus far, with the Democratic Alliance trailing with 784, 392 votes followed by the Congress of the People with 319, 807 votes.

The number counted is around 18 percent of the 23,181,997 voters registered to take part in Wednesday’s polls.

It is not yet known how many votes were cast.

The Inkatha Freedom Party was in fourth place with 110,707 of the votes.

The Independent Democrats following with 69,555 votes.