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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.

Well now I think I’ve heard it all!

The entire planet can breathe a sigh of collective relief now that we know that none other than Jacob Zuma, the South African president is keeping chips until Jesus’ second coming.

Well thank God for that hey! Capable and hands springs to mind.

I understand that a lot of electioneering is done to a generally uneducated mass of people, but this is just too much.

The Times reports on a dear Presidents latest election (for the next election no doubt) promise:

Zuma, who was addressing thousands of supporters in Witbank, Mpumalanga, yesterday, said: ‘‘The ANC will rule until the Son of Man comes. He must come back while we are still in power.” The ANC president was roundly criticised by religious leaders shortly before the elections when he invoked the name of Jesus to illustrate the ruling party’s hold on power.

More here.

Now seeing as he is in charge of the ANC, that must make him a JC proxy right? With these utterings, he is either telling us that Jesus MUST come back before the next election, or that the last election we had was the last one we will have. That’ll sit quite nicely with the Mayan Calander hicks proposing an end to the world (or a second coming) by 2012.

Hang on maybe JZ was watching the same documentary I watched this last week on this topic?

Very very smart there, love the way he is covering his bases, just in case, for example, the world ends in 2012.

I was particularly interested in their claim that in 2012, there will be some sort of a galactic alignment, the first for 26 000 years, now that’s all cool and shit, but using that supposition, then EVERY moment last happened 26 000 years ago (working on that timeline)

Just like THIS moment.

…and THIS one.

But getting back to the man of the moment, JZ. I mean how can anyone makes such absurb promises and be taken seriously? Worse still is he taking himself seriously?