Zapiro Documentary Goes On-Line After SABC Declines Broadcast

At least that's what I think is going on here. If I'm reading these articles correctly, the Mail & Guardian is running a version of a documentary about the cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro after the South African Broadcasting Corporation declined a second time to run it as they had planned. This has led to a flurry of charges: that the documentary was not the newspaper's to upload; that the SABC has been bowing to pressure from ruling party ANC, whose current leader President Jacob Zuma is suing the cartoonist for a pair of unflattering cartoons, in not running the piece; and that is somehow not even the best version of the documentary. It also means that all of the controversy about Zapiro's satirical treatment of the once-disgraced politician whose amazing comeback culminated in his taking the presidency comes back up again, this time in a very heated atmosphere.
 
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