Cartoon Of Namibian President Sets Off Fierce Journalistic/Government Debate

I'm not certain that I'm able to track all of the facts, but it seems that a cartoon in Namibia's The Namibian by Dudley Viall depicting that country's president Hifikepunye Pohamba as "a cold, uncaring and insensitive person" led to that country's prime minister Nahas Angula to object, all in the context of a government ban on advertising in the publication. This has put what has become an international political issue (Turkey, South Africa) on the table: the treatment of politicians by cartoonists and what influence should be employed by said politicians in response. I thought the issues as staked out in The Namibian by their political writer Gwen Lister were pretty much on target, although there's a ton of stuff I could be missing.
 
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