Zapiro - The boos have it

[Daily Maverick] ZAPIRO TGIF, 5 May 2017 [World Press Clamp] [More Zapiro cartoons here]( More from Daily Maverick [Surviving against all odds – and court judgments: How Jacob Zuma does it]( By RANJENI MUNUSAMY President Jacob Zuma suffered yet another blow on Thursday when he was ordered by the North Gauteng High Court to provide reasons for his firing of Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas from the Cabinet – and pay the costs of the application. You would think that these numerous losses in the courts, as well as being booed, mass protests and mounting calls to step down, would eventually break the president’s obstinacy. But Zuma remains impervious. “I am not leaving the office right now,” he casually told journalists at the World Economic Forum in Durban this week. Zuma’s resilience is related to how the ANC failed to hold him accountable and his ability to manipulate and manoeuvre behind the scenes. [Many Rivers to Cross: Bridget Masango – from barefoot schoolgirl to Parliament]( By MARIANNE THAMM Bridget Masango in many ways represents the triumph of democracy in South Africa. She is the sixth of nine children, born at the height of apartheid in the 1960s. Her father was forced to leave rural KwaZulu-Natal to work as a security guard in Johannesburg while her mother was a child-minder for a farmer, working in the farmhouse kitchen when she was not tending her own patch of land to keep her family alive. Masango knows the humiliation of poverty, the dompas, of being “illegal” in the cities of her own country. But from an early age Masango did not allow the considerable hurdles in her path to stop her from fashioning a life on her own terms. Today she is the Shadow Minister of Social Development, a polar opposite to Bathabile Dlamini. [FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND]( Copyright © 2017 Daily Maverick, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you are awesome and on the Daily Maverick First Thing subscriber list. PLEASE RESPECT Zapiro's Copyright For personal use only. You may save the cartoon and use it on the web (personal blog or social media), in a powerpoint presentation, school project or academic paper with the following text: © 2017 Zapiro (All Rights Reserved). Printed/Used with permission from www.zapiro.com [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](