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today isjonathan shapiro, best known by his pen name zapiro. he is south africa s most prominent and controversial political cartoonist. so amid all of its troubles, is south africa able to laugh at itself? jonathan shapiro, better known by your pen name zapiro, welcome to hardtalk. it is a great pleasure to meet you and i want to begin with something you said a few years ago, you said moral outrage is what drives a cartoonist. you have been at this cartooning for four decades. can you maintain outrage forfour four decades. can you maintain outrage for four decades? you can. outrage for four decades? you can- when outrage for four decades? you can- when i outrage for four decades? you can. when i was outrage for four decades? 7m. can. when i was doing outrage for four decades? 7m, can. when i was doing five or six cartoons a week i would sometimes wonder what the hell they do today and you wake up in the morning and the news just keeps coming. it would happen to cartoon ....
That was sort of like the anc national congress but above ground and ijoined while i was in the army. in that freak the army out even more who sent literary observers to the trial, they were can was convicted, a small conviction, the first people to be convicted of illegal gathering in cars which is also funny. i was public about it and i said to hell with all of this i now want to be an activist, and use my cartoons to actually do something and so i became an activist cartoonist while i was in the army which was really strange. in the army which was really stran . e. ., in the army which was really stranue. ., . ., , ., in the army which was really stranue. ., . . , ., ., strange. you clearly had a gift for it. strange. you clearly had a gift for it- so strange. you clearly had a gift for it. so let s strange. you clearly had a gift for it. so let s fast strange. you clearly had a gift for it. so let s fast forward - for it. so let s fast forward to the post 1994 period when apa ....
I really want to say something. i m just amazed that you called me personally but even more so because in the four reasons i met you you would have seen the cartoons becoming more and more critical of the anc and the government and he said oh, but thatis government and he said oh, but that is yourjob. and for me that is yourjob. and for me thatjust personified that amazing ability of his to take criticism and to see the importance of criticism, of cartooning, of good journalism in the country. that puts him head and shoulders above most politicians, most statesmen. let s talk now about your relationship with more recent south african leaders, in particular i want to focus on jacob zuma. it is one thing to draw a leader with a slipping halo but your treatment of zuma was on a different scale. in most people in south africa will think of your characterisation of zuma with a ....
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