Sharp wit drawn on to effect political change for good
THE joke in the newspaper industry is that readers head straight for the cartoon section. "People need to laugh more," says Sifiso Yalo, cartoonist with the Sowetan newspaper.Yalo was born in Bizana in the Eastern Cape. "A breath away from the Indian Ocean," he says.After matric, he moved to Durban, where he completed a Fine Arts Diploma at Technikon Natal, now known as Durban University of Technology.He had no idea then that he would become a cartoonist and caricature the likes of President Jacob Zuma and former Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille for a living, "but I always loved cartoons, like a kid who watches TV."But Yalo is not a kid any more and political cartoons are no laughing matter. Just over a year ago, two men angered by the work of French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris entered the title’s offices and killed 11 people, injuring 11 others in the building....WHILE Yalo says in SA he is more likely "to be shot for my 200 bucks, cellphone and 5-bob ch...
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