Devolving ANC Leadership

MANDELA'S SHOES have become a popular device for South African cartoonists to measure the declining impression made by successive presidents against. The "Flip Flop" is a popular device employed by American cartoonists to suggest a person who has "flip flopped" (or done an about turn) on a matter of principle. Here Jerm brings the two metaphors together in a comment about President Zuma's recent "flip flop" on disciplining Julius Malema.

Speaking of Malema, Africartoons wonders what shoe style would represent our young president-in-waiting if this analogy were projected into the future... a pair of knitted booties? (You saw it here first!).

Back to the "Flip Flop": It would seem that Jerm is determined to introduce it to the South African cartoonist's visual lexicon; as its use in another recent cartoon by him would suggest. In that cartoon, a "lame duck" president is seen paradoxically stomping about... in flip flops!