South African Cartoonist Suffers Police Raid

In an incident I'm guessing occurred yesterday or over the weekend as opposed to earlier today, the South African cartoonist Andre Trantraal saw his Cape Town home raided by police. This may have been part of a wider police campaign against the local drug trade. Trantraal's experience sounds horrible, and it's not clear exactly what put his house on whatever list the police assembled: a previous owner seems a likely inference from the piece, but nobody knows and even to speculate out loud is obviously problematic. The 30-year-old Trantraal works with his brother Nathan on the strip The Richenbaums; his work through that vehicle and in various long-form comics forms suggests a political consciousness that will no doubt shape his reaction to the incident.
 
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