Tafelberg Short: Heart of Dickness: Jacob Zuma and The Spear

by Andrew Donaldson

Overview

With Jacob Zuma presiding over an inept kleptocracy lurching from one dysfunction to the next, clearly what was needed was a distraction from bigger issues . . . and so Africa's oldest liberation movement launched a crazed assault on artistic freedom by mobilising against a painting featuring Zuma's penis. . . With razor sharp wit, journalist and commentator Andrew Donaldson explores what can be termed the ruling party's Achilles 'piel'.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780624057024
Publisher:	Tafelberg
Publication date:	10/29/2012
Series:	Tafelberg Kort/Tafelberg Short
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	53
File size:	339 KB

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With Jacob Zuma presiding over an inept kleptocracy lurching from one dysfunction to the next, clearly what was needed was a distraction from bigger issues . . . and so Africa's oldest liberation movement launched a crazed assault on artistic freedom by mobilising against a painting featuring Zuma's penis. . . With razor sharp wit, journalist and commentator Andrew Donaldson explores what can be termed the ruling party's Achilles 'piel'.