The president’s biggest concern, right now, is not corruption or mismanagement or, worst of all, poverty. The president’s biggest concern, right now, is his dick.

And it is not even his dick.

It is a depiction of his dick. Painted on a canvas. Hanging inside an art gallery. And yet, the president – who has a history of unzipping his pants – feels that his dignity has been violated.

He is clearly losing touch with reality.

Brett Murray’s parody of Jacob Zuma (which is a parody of Vladimir Lenin) has triggered considerable outrage and, as usual, race-card-playing. Ironically, the artwork had been on display, quietly, for nearly a week before the ANC turned a small thing into a gigantic thing, thus perpetuating the Streisand Effect (and giving me material).

My editor didn’t want to err on the side of “poor taste”, so he chose not to run my cartoon.

It is remarkable, albeit expected, that the ANC has decided to appeal the High Court’s etolling suspension, despite SANRAL’s decision not to appeal (following its CEO’s resignation).

Cabinet spokesman Jimmy Manyi said the cabinet had decided to appeal the interim order by the Pretoria High Court last month. Manyi said the government would “pull out everything” to ensure that the SA National Roads Agency paid its R20-billion debt. [via]

With the ANC’s blind determination to make South Africans pay more, you’re left wondering “What’s in it for the ANC?…”.

This cartoon follows on from yesterday’s one (under which there are some great comments).