SOUNDTRACK: hiatus
[READ: January 9, 2022] It Only Comes in Orange, Mr Zuma
This is the second collection of editorial cartoons from South Africa’s Daily Maverick newspaper. Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) has been making editorial cartoons and caricatures since the early 1990s and has 25 books of cartoons published. Turns out I have access to most of them so I may need to d a deep dive–maybe I’ll understand some of the politics more.
I really don’t know very much about the South Africa, and I feel like news about the country is not covered very much here. I don’t understand all of the jokes in here, but I do feel like I have a vague grasp on the country now. However, it’s when Zapiro turns his pen abroad–especially against trump, that I can see how good of a satirist he is. I posted this picture when talking about the previous book, but this cartoon appears in this one:
When he publishes the cartoons in the newspaper, they speak for themselves. But in these collections, he adds a caption since most of the details are no longer fresh. For the above he wrote:
Hell-bent on overturning the election result, trump supporters storm the Capitol building in Washington. The riot leaves five people dead.
How is it that there is any question about this still in our country. Why is our justice system so slow?
Well, given the justice system in South Africa, our looks like a quick resolution. (more…)
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