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Mail & Guadian

31 May 2012

Defeat for Freedom of Expression - The case of Brett Murray's Spear

After weeks of confrontation over a controversial painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with genitals exposed, the ANC and Jacob Zuma have succeed by using bullying and stalinst tacticts to get City Press to back down  and to pressurise the Goodman Gallery to submit.  Brett Murray, was also party to the deal to defuse the deep anger nationwide over "The Spear," a work of art that made South Africa’s consensus look frighteningly fragile. The ANC might be able to scare the City Press into removing The Spear, but cannot do anything to the thousands of other sites that have posted the image, or to the people that have shared it on social networks or emailed it to their friends.

 

Stalin / ANC / Goodman gallery / City Press / Freedom of expression / Rights of the individual  / Dignity

ANC, Art, Brett Murray, Censorship, City Press, Ferial Haffajee, Freedom of Expression, Goodman Gallery, Jacob Zuma, Steamroller, The Spear

Links

Debate on Freedom of Expression versus Rights of the Individual
South African President Zuma, gallery settle case over painting
Amid Uproar, Graphic Painting of South African President Is Removed From Gallery
South Africa's Ruling Party Will Fail to Quash Freedom of Expression
How Zuma's bid to halt 'The Spear' case was derailed
Daily Maverick: The Spear: Two white-hot weeks later, the Goodman Gallery, the ANC and Brett Murray kiss and make up
Lekota blasts ‘fascist’ ANC
Spear artist a boost for Zuma re-election bid - ANC president Jacob Zuma must thank artist Brett Murray for giving his campaign to be re-elected as the party's leader a much-needed shot in the arm.
Nzimande calls for The Spear to be destroyed
How to silence the voices of patriotic dissent - BRETT Murray, in his affidavit this week, attempts to explain why he painted The Spear. Before he begins with an exposition of what informs his art, Murray opens with one of the saddest lines of the new South Africa: "At the outset, I would like to say that I am a proud South African and a former supporter of the ANC. I am not a racist."

Related Other Cartoons

Mgobhozi on 31 May 2012 in Independent Newspapers via Africartoons
Themba Siwela on 29 May 2012 in The Citizen via Africartoons
Themba Siwela on 30 May 2012 in The Citizen via Africartoons

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