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Article: Politicians impaled by the satirist's pen: comedians and cartoonists had a ball poking fun at South African politicians in the run-up to the general elections. Tom Nevin reports.(MEDIA)
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- African Business
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- June 1, 2009
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South Africa is a quickly developing society of the savvy, the smart, the trendy and the tolerant, the latter having blossomed in the last 15 years when the country's 42m or so black people suddenly found themselves part of a political society that is allowed to be irreverent towards its leaders without the fear of being flung into jail or out of windows from tall buildings, as happened during the apartheid regime.
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At the hustings of the recent general elections, nothing was sacred. Often the barbs were flung from electioneers' platforms and it was not easy to separate the insults from the politicking slings and arrows. Former ...