New And Wholly Familiar-Looking Zapiro Cartoon Discussed, Criticized, Defended

The very popular and fearlessly aggressive South African cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro has a new cartoon out. It criticizes the consideration of a pardon by President Jacob Zuma that would balance political concerns over a previous pardon, basically putting political expediency above multiple declarations of justice made in the sentencing of certain apartheid and post-apartheid officials. The interesting thing about it is that in making these accusations Zapiro is reworking the imagery of past cartoons that showed South Africa's President about to rape Justice while other officials held her down. Not surprisingly, the strength of such imagery has drawn criticism, and Zapiro's effort to put these actions in a continuity with past ones through visual means has drawn attention from international press.
 
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