Comments on: Jacob Zuma, Zapiro and Sarah Palin

By: J. Yuma

J. Yuma — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:56:52 +0000

“….is there any real difference?”

Probably not..and indeed, either is a little scary.
Our own American ‘civil war’ *cough cough* should be enough to make my point, or yours.. God was on both sides.

By: Sarah britten

Sarah britten — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:55:43 +0000

Yuma, when push comes to shove, is there any real difference?

By: J. Yuma

J. Yuma — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:44:16 +0000

I don’t know about Zuma, but Sarah Palin doesn’t think God is on her team, but I do think she believes she is on God’s team.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:43:00 +0000

Well, God IS on both their teams.

All it takes to get the Big Fella on your team is to believe that he is. That’s why they call it “faith”.

By: bubu

bubu — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:06:57 +0000

ZApiro is all that’s left of the struggle. An i do mean the struggle, because it used to be about truth and integrity and saying it the way it is. Now the “struggle” is a term every South African uses to try and hide the fact that there are only ever a select few that are big enough to take the risk of facing down these institutionalized maidenheads. I don’t imagine that ZApiro has the finances (cartoonist salary) to support masses of lawyers or pay R15 million lawsuits against him, and yet he continues to fight in the face of total destruction. He is the man.

By: Sarah Britten

Sarah Britten — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:05:44 +0000

The interesting thing is both Palin and Zuma appear to be under the impression that God is on their team.

By: Oosthuizen

Oosthuizen — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:53:44 +0000

God help us all if Palin and Zuma get their way.

By: CitizenX

CitizenX — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:23:20 +0000

Wow. Seems Zuma supporters (Kill for him? Who exactly do you want to kill and how?) have no clue about the universal depiction of Justice as a woman. They all think Zapiro used a woman to depict Justice merely in order to further a “rape” metaphor. The feminists seem equally blind to the meaning of the cartoon and fixate on “rape” instead of the meaning of the cartoon. What hypocrites. Cartoons depicting the massacre and death of hundreds (women included) provoke no outrage but just mention “rape” and the sky is supposed to fall down around us. Get a sense of perspective people! You are acting like religious fundamentalists who regard their beliefs beyond earthly criticism.

By: Sarah Britten

Sarah Britten — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:17:27 +0000

Well, Zapiro has got us talking, and that has to be a good thing.

By: Po

Po — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:57:29 +0000

I agree that this cartoon is doing positive pr for Zuma. Even white liberals are feeling this cartoon was a little harsh. Whether the cartoon is right, wrong, good or bad, Zuma can rightfully say that he was never guilty of rape, that this cartoon makes defamatory suggestions, and he can easily appear to be in the right.