Go, Look: Zapiro On Mandela

The Mail & Guardian has posted some of the cartoons Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro has done for that publication featuring Nelson Mandela. Part of me hopes that the bulk of Zapiro's treatment of Mandela wasn't quite this laudatory. In fighting claims that he's overly biased against current ANC President Jacob Zuma -- claims with legal bearing because of lawsuits -- the assertion that Mandela had a sense of humor and Zuma doesn't has been floated in the press. I would imagine it's a lot easier to have a sense of humor when someone is putting you on statues and talking of your moral leadership as opposed to putting a shower on one's head to remind folks of your rape trial. That's not to criticize either treatment individually. I like these cartoons, and I admire how Zapiro has gone after Zuma. I just think any normal person would be grumpier about being savaged, and if this treatment of Mandela holds true, it's not really all that interesting that the former president has a better sense of humor about being portrayed than this one does.
 
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