David Bullard on the curious case of the President's honourable member Keen observers of bogus piety would have been enthralled last weekend as the South African Media Synchronised Hypocrisy team went into their final stages of training before this year's Olympics....
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The Spear | by Steven Robbins
BRETT Murray’s The Spear has generated an extraordinary amount of media and political commentary, social media twittering, marches and protests, including the defacing of the painting itself. The rage expressed by many in response to the depiction of the private parts...
The Spear: Enough and no more! | by ANC Today
ANC Today article says cheap offensive smut peddled as art doesn't add anything to advance civic liberties ENOUGH AND NO MORE! The artist, the gallery and the City Press editor "... propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a...
The Spear that divided the nation | by Professor Robins
BRETT Murray’s The Spear has generated an extraordinary amount of media and political commentary, social media twittering, marches and protests, including the defacing of the painting itself. The rage expressed by many in response to the depiction of the private parts...
Unpacking the legal arguments in The Spear case | by Pierre De Vos
The presentation of the legal arguments about whether a final interdict should be granted against the Goodman Gallery and City Press to cease publication (on their websites) of a work of art, depicting someone who looks like President Jacob Zuma with his private parts...
What now, now that the bullies have won? | by Jeremy Gordin
Jeremy Gordin's nine points about the ANC, The Spear and City Press 1. Little Story When I was 14 or 15 and had just discovered thoughtful writers such as, for example, George Orwell, and compassionate ones such as Alan Paton, I mentioned to my father that I was being...
ANC vs City Press: What lies beneath | by Mandy de Waal
Some say it was the ANC's best chance to steer public attention away from its disastrous handling of the economy. Some say they just couldn't wait to spark an outrage so people would stop talking about textbooks being five months late in Limpopo. Some say the public...
Black man, you’re still on your own | by Olwethu Sipuka
Olwethu Sipuka says Brett Murray hit the black man in the belly of his struggles "Black man you are on your own" "For the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line", (W.E.B du Bois, 1903) The scenes that played themselves off at the Goodman...
City Press vs ANC: Who is the adult and who is the child? | by Gill Moodie
Who exactly, I have wondered as temperatures have risen over the past 10 days over Brett Murray's Zuma Spear painting, is the adult and who is the child in this situation? What started as a battle between the ANC, on one side, and the Goodman Gallery and City Press...
