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South Africa:
ANC Calls On All Locals to Boycott Buying City Press Newspaper and to Join the Protest Match to the Goodman Gallery
ANC, 24 May 2012
The African National Congress (ANC) calls upon all South Africans, members of the ANC and the Alliance, to indefinitely boycott buying the City Press Newspaper. Read more »
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South Africa:
FXI Supports Gallery's Refusal to Remove Zuma Picture
IFEX, 23 May 2012
During the apartheid era, Michaelangelo's Statue of David caused a controversy when displayed in a shop window and there were calls for David's nakedness to be covered by a… Read more »
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South Africa:
ANC Welcomes the South Gauteng High Court Decision to Have a Full Bench of Judges to Hear the ANC and President Zuma Urgent Application Regarding the Offensive Depiction of President Zuma
ANC, 22 May 2012
The African National Congress (ANC) fully welcomes the Court decision to have a full bench of the South Gauteng High Court hearing the matter regarding the urgent application of… Read more »
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South Africa:
Zuma Painting Case Adjourned
BuaNews, 24 May 2012
The court case relating to the portrait depicting President Jacob Zuma in an offensive manner has been adjourned. Read more »
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South Africa:
Advocate Breaks Down
BuaNews, 24 May 2012
African National Congress Advocate Gcina Malindi has broken down in the South Gauteng High court, where a full bench is hearing the African National Congress (ANC) application… Read more »
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South Africa:
Supporters Heed Call
BuaNews, 24 May 2012
Scores of supporters of President Jacob Zuma are singing and dancing outside the South Gauteng High Court, where a full bench of judges is hearing arguments in the case relating to… Read more »
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South Africa:
South Gauteng High Court Hears Zuma Case
BuaNews, 24 May 2012
A full bench of the South Gauteng High Court is already in session to hear an African National Congress (ANC) application regarding the portrait depicting President Jacob Zuma in… Read more »
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South Africa:
Zuma Art Smear Case Postponed
SAPA, 23 May 2012
The trial of two men accused of vandalising a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed was postponed in the Hillbrow Magistrate's Court on Wednesday. Read more »
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South Africa:
Four in Court Over Zuma Painting
SAPA, 23 May 2012
Four people appeared in court on Wednesday on charges related to a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma in the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. Read more »
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South Africa:
ANC Calls On All Locals to Defend the President
ANC, 23 May 2012
The African National Congress (ANC) calls upon all South Africans to join President Jacob Zuma, his family, the ANC and our Alliance partners tomorrow, 24th May 2012, at the South… Read more »
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South Africa:
The Spear and the Descent Into Censorship
DA, 22 May 2012
The iconic status achieved overnight by Brett Murray's painting The Spear is a measure of the quality of the work, now deplorably destroyed by iconoclasts. Read more »
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South Africa:
Ruling Party Brands Zuma Painting Racist
SAPA, 21 May 2012
ANC leaders were still smarting over a painting of its president Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed, branding it racist on Monday as they prepared for a court challenge to have… Read more »
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South Africa:
Men Caught Defacing Controversial Painting of Zuma
SAPA, 22 May 2012
A university professor and a 15-year-old boy are believed to be behind Tuesday's defacing of a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma. Read more »
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South Africa:
The Spear, the Prophet, 'Them' and 'Us'
Daily Maverick, 21 May 2012
It was bound to cause a storm. The image of President Jacob Zuma in a Soviet-style stance, his genitalia exposed. What it really showed was exactly how divided we still are, which… Read more »
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South Africa:
Presidency Reacts to Portrait
BuaNews, 18 May 2012
The Presidency says it is "shocked and disgusted" at the painting by Brett Murray depicting President Jacob Zuma in an offensive manner. Read more »
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South Africa:
City Press Still Running Zuma Painting
SAPA, 18 May 2012
City Press will not remove a photograph of a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with his penis hanging out of his pants from its website, despite a threat of court action by… Read more »
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South Africa:
ANC Outraged By Brett Murray's Depiction of President Jacob Zuma
ANC, 17 May 2012
The African National Congress is extremely disturbed and outraged by the distasteful and indecent manner in which Brett Murray and the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg is displaying… Read more »