Twenty years ago, Pieter-Dirk Uys wrote an article with the headline "Zapiro ventures where comrades fear to tread". I suppose I have done it again.It's not as if I'm not aware of the risks associated with any monkey-like depiction in our racially charged political climate. It's just that I expect readers to read cartoons with a degree of discernment and I think those who do so would see that this cartoon stands up to scrutiny.I sometimes decide whether some negative responses to a cartoon may outweigh the impact of the message I'm trying to get across. In this instance, as with the many cartoons before this, I felt that the metaphor would be easily intelligible to readers across the board and that the two figures in the cartoon offset each other, one being human and the other not.President Jacob Zuma, who is actually the main target, is depicted in all his naturalistic humanity whereas Shaun Abrahams is depicted as the organ-grinder's monkey for the purposes of the metaphor.It is h...
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