Now that the elections are over in South Africa, this is what Zapiro thinks about the 2009 Elections. “Visit www.zapiro.com for more cartoons.” Share

As Nandos had promised us last week, they aired a new advert on Friday in response to the initial one featuring Julius Malema. I do not think we should be calling this new ad the ‘Malema Nandos ad’ because Malema does not feature in it anymore! Instead they have blocked out the face and edited the voice. But the ‘damage’ has already been done as everyone will still be calling   Read More ...

On the 9 May 2009, African National Congress President Jacob Zuma will become the President of South Africa. This comes after the ANC won an outright majority in the country’s fourth democratic elections which were held on the 22 April. Before these elections, there was much talk from political and media analysts that the ANC would lose much of its support to the newly formed Congress of the People. This   Read More ...

As we expected the ANC has claimed a resounding victory in the general elections. With a 66% majority in Parliament, the ANC is set to elect Zuma as president when the new legislature convenes on May 6. The final results were released today (Saturday) and they showed that the ANC was allocated 264 seats in parliament after winning 65.9 percent of the vote. The ANC won control of eight of   Read More ...

I watched with interest Koos van der Merwe’s comments this morning on E-TV’s New Channel on the reasons behind the IFP haemorrhaging both nationally and in its stronghold of KZN. As an ex-IFP spokesman, the IFP’s further slide does not surprise me. I think the two key factors can be summarised as follows: 1. The ‘Zuma factor” removed one of the key reason d’ etre’s of the IFP’s existence. No   Read More ...

The Malema vs Nandos saga continues! After the ANC Youth League had called for Malema’s Nandos ad to be taken off the air and Nandos had agreed to do so, we are now hearing that Nandos marketing manager, Sylvester Chauke, has decided Nandos will be airing a new Malema-related advert today (Friday). Chauke has said, “We agreed to address the youth league’s concerns and we will respond in a way   Read More ...

The Democratic Alliance (DA) can celebrate one thing: the got the most overseas votes and they won them by a land slide. It is a pity that they can not win by that margin when all the votes are put together. But then again, we asked this question before the elections with regards to how much these overseas votes would contribute to the bigger picture. The Democratic Alliance received 7   Read More ...

Something of concern about the polling station at St Pauls church in Rondebosch is that the voting booths are facing the wrong way. It is open and people and the press stood behind Hellen Zille when she was voting. In other words people can see you while you busy making your mark. The correct way is one must go behind the polling booth to cast your vote. According to the   Read More ...

If you have not already watched the Nandos advert everyone is talking about then you need to watch it below! The ANC Youth League has been quick to come out and ask for this advert to be taken off the air or else it will “mobilise the people of South Africa to take militant action against Nandos and anything associated with Nando’s”. Does this mean they will go in and   Read More ...

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