Zuma Case Against Zapiro To Be Heard In August 2012

This interview with the South African cartoonist Zapiro offers up the usual array of considered answers to pointed political questions -- there's a great, direct answer as to why the ANC became poisoned on political satires -- but the piece also provides a bit of hard news I totally missed: the defamation case against the cartoonist brought against him by South African President Jacob Zuma has been scheduled for that country's high court for August 2012. The international record for legal matters against cartoonists brought by high government officials is distressingly poor, although some South African organizations have in the past sided with free expression in terms of political satire, and that indicates there's some hope for Zapiro winning the case. It looks like he's going to fight back hard, anyway; I'm not surprised.
 
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