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DAVID ANDERSON (ANDY) began his cartooning career at 'The Natal Witness' in the 1970's and drew for 'The Pretoria News', 'The Rand Daily Mail', 'The Star' and 'The Sunday Times'…>

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  1. Mandela's Story in Cartoons

    FROM BEING BANNED TO BEING IDOLISED

    Zapiro's Mandela Rising

    As global attention is focused on the ailing Nelson Mandela, a recent radio interview and two online slideshows featuring South African cartoonists tells the story of the icon's life through editorial cartoons.

    But Mandela's cartoonography is missing a few chapters, at least from a South African perspective. For one thing, the struggle hero's image was banned by the apartheid government's 'Banned Persons Act (1950)' which prohibited the quoting, referencing and depiction of political opponents.

    And then, in about 1989 when those laws became relaxed, and in 1990 when they were lifted, cartoonists - starved of any graphic reference of the famous prisoner because of the ban - were stretched to imagine what he looked like after 27 years in prison.

    The interview and slideshows tell how the cartoonists overcame these challenges and went on to produce perhaps the most positive cartoon narrative of any politician's life ever told.

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    Posted on Jun 26, 2013

  2. Cartoonists stand against media restrictions

    BY JOHN CURTIS


    South Africa’s top editorial cartoonists have banded together to protest against the government’s intended press restrictions.

    In rejecting the proposed Protection of Information Bill and Media Tribunal, they have warned that these restrictions will erode the right to freedom of expression achieved by the country’s hard fought struggle for democracy.

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    Posted on Aug 12, 2010

  3. DON'T BURST OUR SPEECH BUBBLE!

    PLEASE sign our petition for free speech for SA cartoonists

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    Posted on Sep 01, 2010

  4. Cartoonists Get Behind the Soccer

    Corrupt politicians, dodgy business persons and lazy public servants will all benefit from at least a partial reprieve from local cartoonists who have shifted their focus towards the Soccer World Cup, and joined the rest of South Africa in a mood of patriotic goodwill.

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    Posted on Jun 11, 2010

  5. Book Launch. You're invited...

    To the Stellenbosch launch of 'Don't Joke!' The Year in Cartoons on Thurs, 15th April, 2010, 17h30 for 16h00 at the  Visual Arts Department, Victoria St, University of Stellenbosch.

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    Posted on Apr 09, 2010

  6. Cartoon Book Flies off Shelves

    PUBLISHERS ORDER 2nd IMPRINT OF POPULAR BOOK

    'Don't Joke! The Year in Cartoons' - the inaugural annual of South African editorial cartoons - has sold so well since it was launched last December that the book's publishers, Jacana Media, have ordered a reprint in anticipation of stocks running out in two month's time.

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    Posted on Apr 09, 2010

  7. WITH A JIBE AND A JAVELINE

    SA CARTOONISTS DEFENDING THEIR DEMOCRACY

    Book review by Francois Verster (Bolander Newspaper).

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    Posted on Mar 27, 2010

  8. MANDELA CARTOONS: 20 Years of Freedom

    Mandela Cartoons: 20 Years of freedomTwenty years ago when Nelson Mandela walked free, the world's cartoonists waited with bated breath and pens poised wondering what he would look like.

    It had been 27 years since their reference photographs were taken, and his image had been banned by the apartheid government since. They also wondered what line his politics would take.

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    Posted on Feb 09, 2010