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Yevgeny V Prigozhin, the Russian tenderpreneur and leader of the notoriously violent and ruthless Wagner mercenary group that shook Moscow this weekend, is a terrible human being.

Thanks to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s revelations, it’s plain to see Russia’s involvement in Africa is for self-interest, not to help

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has insisted there is no leadership crisis within the governing party.

Very different and for a while, the cartoon sat in the public domain and people thought it was a very funny cartoon, very interesting cartoon. it was talking about — it said another state organ, another organ grinder�*s monkey, because zuma was busy converting the state organs into mouthpieces organs into his mouthpieces and he had appointed this little puppet. but in the end, it was a black man as a monkey. ok, so, when i said i misread the mood, i thought that by having zuma with the big t...

You did it time and time and time again over many months — in fact, over many years. heres one example. you cannot imagine a man made to look more ridiculous than this image of zuma with his giant shower nozzle over his head. were you, in a sense as a cartoonist, trying to destroy his credibility? of course. look, i think he was doing a damn fine job of that himself, but im then elaborating. im just doing more with things that he actually said. what a cartoonist is trying to do is to somehow e...

That amazing ability of his to take criticism and to see the importance of criticism, of cartooning, of good journalism in the country. and that puts him head and shoulders above most politicians, most statesmen. lets talk now about your relationship with more recent south african leaders, and in particular, i want to focus onjacob zuma, cos its one thing to draw a leader with a slipping halo. your treatment of zuma was on a different scale. and most people in south africa will think of your cha...

Which is a very strange and interesting version of events. but thats what he saw i was doing. but i wonder whether you were given more pause for thought not by the fact that zuma was infuriated and took you through the legal system, but many other south africans were infuriated — not least women in south africa who basically said, how dare you, as a man, particularly as a white man, use rape as a symbol, a metaphor in what, in the end, is a cartoon, when the reality for south african women, pa...

That they are being homophobic, or theyre controlling, trying to control womens reproductive rights or any of those things, or being politically reactionary, and im afraid it happens in all of these religions. so, in a sense, you wanted to make a stand by drawing the prophet mohammed. i wonder whether it was worth it because of course the police then said they uncovered a plot to kill you. it never reached a courtroom, but they said there was a plot out there. youve certainly received death thre...

And he went through a trial. under cross examination, he admitted that he actually knew that the person he had supposedly had this consensual sex with was hiv—positive. and then they said to him, "so did you use protection?" no, he didnt. why not? because he thought he didnt have much chance of infection. now, jacob zuma had been the head of the national aids council when he was deputy president, so this was really absurd. and then it went further. they said, "what did you do next after this s...

But that is yourjob." and for me, thatjust personified that amazing ability of his to take criticism and to see the importance of criticism, of cartooning, of good journalism in the country. and that puts him head and shoulders above most politicians, most statesmen. lets talk now about your relationship with more recent south african leaders. in particular, i want to focus onjacob zuma. and in particular, i want to focus onjacob zuma, cos its one thing to draw a leader with a slipping halo. you...