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Almost one thousand dolphins are lying dead on the beach. Another five thousand pelicans have also been found dead. What is the cause of this massacre? There are different explanations. Some argue that it was the offshore oil exploration while others say that these...
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...
How far can artists go in satirising or sending up the powerful? That is the essence of the brouhaha over Brett Murray’s contentious The Spear painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed in a pose reminiscent of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin....
Contrary to many an opinion, the ANC's best friend these days is by now the infamous painting by Brett Murray. As things stand, they have reason to thank the artist for giving them a unique opportunity to further secure their core voting constituency from the further...
The Spear – as I have written before – has become about far more than about whether a painting resembling President Jacob Zuma with his penis hanging out should be banned because it humiliates Zuma, his many wives and children as well as affronts the dignity of all...
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...
Indigenous Peoples will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during June for Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 13 --22, 2012. In the struggle to uphold the Rights of Mother Earth, Bolivia warns of the commercialized "green economy" that seeks to...
We, wrestlers and fighters for the defense of life, gathered in the third Venezuelan Congress of Biological Diversity, we discussed about the multiple dimensions related to the preservation of life by contributing to the deepening of the struggle of the social...
Pearl Mathibela says Brett Murray's painting was disrespectful both to Zuma and the nation Nation building is being undermined, not the Constitution As the furore over the much-publicised (and now defaced) "painting" of one Brett Murray erupted, my initial reaction...