As usual, Zapiro hits the nail on the head with, as it happens, a mighty sledgehammer in his latest Sunday Times cartoon. His hard-hitting, courageous, uncomfortable yet brilliant cartoon depicts Umshini about to rape “the justice system” which lies helplessly pinioned to the ground by Zuma’s head cheerleaders (Julius Malema, Gwede Mantashe, Blade Nzimande and [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘sunday times’
September 8, 2008
“Sunday Times” in red-faced retraction
The Sunday Times issued a terse retraction of an article it ran two weeks ago in which it claimed that Transnet, the giant parastatal, had sold of vast swathes of Table Bay to foreign investors. The erroneous nature of the report comes as a major blow to the publication’s credibility — an unfortunate development since [...]
August 11, 2008
The plot thickens…
The Sunday Times continues its arms deal investigation with details on the failure for Ferrostaal to successfully implement and maintain its obligatory offset programmes.
Read about it here.
August 3, 2008
Our president’s arms deal bribe
For years I’ve suspected that the president was implicated in the arms deal’s corruption scandal. Ducking and diving, the president has clearly had much to hide. Today, however, we have more than conjecture (and an incriminating encrypted fax the DA has been in possession of) to go on. The Sunday Times bravely broke the story [...]
April 12, 2008
Was Dave’s drivel really racist?
After reading Xolela Mangcu’s frothy condemnation of what will ultimately be David Bullard’s last Sunday Times column, I braced myself for the worst and prepared to be thoroughly indignant when I got round to reading it.
But when I eventually did get to the so-called controversial and allegedly racist piece, I was puzzled. He got fired [...]
