The Painting of Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s President.
This is just disrespectful and the fact that people are
using the excuse of freedom of expression is just disrespectful to our
constitution. The man is a father, husband and a president, yes he has made
mistakes and some are not those of a president but how many leaders has had
affairs while they were married like, Bill Clinton to name a few and none of
them has been disrespected and humiliated in this manner. That is defamation to
the max and that is my opinion I don’t care who says what. We live in a society
that is very quick to judge and see things at face value. Some South Africans
use the phrase “respect is earned “too much also. I feel that we as South
Africans don’t know what to really fight for because at the end of the day we
have a lot more problems and troubles that the painter could have expressed
that could draw up much attention but here we are arguing about a painting that
is very disrespectful. Couldn’t we paint a picture of poverty, unemployment,
HIV/AIDS? We need to focus our energy on real things and stop looking for
excuses that can distract our attention on the real things that this country
need to focus on and deal with.
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