Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro, born 1958 in Cape Town, is a South African cartoonist, famous as Zapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions. He is the nephew of British magician David Berglas and cousin to Marvin Berglas, director of Marvin's Magic...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionCartoonist
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absurd define hypocrisy political skeptical
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
bit people
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
boy point saying virtually
At which point he, very gently, without virtually saying a word, escorted the little boy from his seat.
change paper point
I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
born cancer dealing dying mother raised
born into poverty, as a 3-year-old dealing with a mother dying of breast cancer, raised by a 12-year-old sibling.
bad case harm judgment united
It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity. What Mr. Regan had with him was worthless. It wasn't even classified. It posed no harm to the United States.
certainly consider focus issues paper saying specific work
I' m not saying that I wouldn't focus my work on issues that the specific paper would consider important, I would certainly do that.
advocate arrows cows knock sacred shoot social sorts
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
events seemed
It was not one of those preplanned events. It seemed to come out of nowhere.
abide assistant attorneys defense disturbed former government high holds nonsense
She is a no-nonsense judge, and she doesn't abide by nonsense from the defense or the prosecutor. Being a former assistant U.S. attorney, she holds the government attorneys to a very high standard, which is as it should be. She is evidently very disturbed by the developments in this case, which is as it should be as well.
act death eligible homicidal pull unless
Unless you pull the trigger, plunge the knife, unless your act is the homicidal act, you're not eligible for the death penalty.
certain checks disturbing government noises people slightly tendency toward
There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.
convention country expectation mental reasonable states subjected united
We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
people
What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.