“A growing atmosphere of fear” permeates the SA cabinet and the SAPS over Zuma’s crime-intelligence chief ‘s centralisation of power and his intimidation tactics.
Amidst growing fear over the
centralisation of all control over the electronic-and print-media and
the security services under the SA president’s crime-intelligence chief –
the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg has taken a courageous and timely
stand against the ruling ANC’s far-reaching plans to muzzle freedom of
speech.
The art gallery is holding a powerful art
exhibition showing highly critical satirical artworks targetting the
country’s ruling New Rich Elite’s widespread fraud and corruption; and
which is increasingly embroiling the entire cabinet and the SAPS in a
growing atmosphere of fear’ : link Yesterday, a SA police officer was even ordered to stop an investigation against the crime-intelligence chief.
SA’s
crime intelligence chief Mdluli now supervises all the
communications-tapping requests by the SAPS before it even goes to a
judge
Mdluli, the head of crime intelligence,
now actually approves all the SAPS requests for interception of
communications — even before they go to the judge as required by law,
effectively shackling the SAPS crime-investigation division, the Hawks.
Previously any police officer over the rank of major-general could be
approached for such approvals. Another ANC-cabinet minister, who also
cited “protocol and fear” for not speaking publicly, said some of his
“comrades” had become suspicious and distrustful of their own bodyguards
because “of the Mdluli thing”. “We used to feel protected, now we feel
followed,” he said. Also, the country’s VIP protection unit has been
moved from the SAPS authority to Mdluli’s crime intelligence unit.
Another cabinet member anonymously said there was an “atmosphere of
fear” and said it was “sad” when members of the highest authority in the
land could not trust their police. The police officer was ordered to
stop investigating accusations that Mdluli misused the police secret
service account to, among other things, buy cars and pay salaries for
himself and several of his relatives whom he allegedly hired.
Protest exhibition: “Hail to the Thief”
Unzipped fly painting of Jacob Zuma by SA artist Brett Murray sold to foreign buyer… painting quickly dubbed the Great #DICKtator on Twitter…
May 13 2012 – This “Unzipped Fly”
painting of Jacob Zuma, which carries the name HAIL TO THE THIEF, will
remain in the exhibition at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg by
satirist-artist Brett Murray until it ends: it has been sold to a
foreign buyer, writes Rapport Afrikaans weekly.
"Hail to the Thief" - South African president, Jacob Zuma, Unzipped
More pictures of the art exhibition which just opened at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg can be seen at – Zuma se oop gulp gaan oorsee
Brett Murray exhibition: "Hail to the Thief" - Amandla poster
Order art work from Brett Murray – Hail To The Thief
Brett Murray exhibition - "Hail to the Thief"
Photo Source – Hail to the Thief
Two years ago, SA president Zuma sued media group in 2010 over Zapiro’s ‘unzipped fly rape ’ cartoon
Two years ago, the SA president sued Avusa
media and others over a a two-year-old political cartoon depicting him
in a sexually suggestive scene with a figure representing ”Lady
Justice”. Zuma was seeking R4million for defamation from Avusa media and
R1million from a former editor with the group’s Sunday Times newspaper
and the cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro – Zapiro. His cartoon depicted
Zuma’s supporters holding down Lady Justice, with Zuma
standing over a woman with his fly unzipped. Shapiro said at the time
in a radio interview that he ‘was saying something very strong about him
because I felt, and still do feel, that he and his allies were abusing
the justice system.” At the time the cartoon was published in 2008 Zuma
was facing corruption charges which could have blocked his path to the
presidency. A court in 2006 acquitted Zuma of raping an HIV-positive
family friend in a case that raised widespread public interest and
condemnation from women’s groups in a country with one of the highest
incidents of sexual violence in the world.
ANC all set to muzzle SA freedom of speech with new laws such as the Protection of State Information Bill
The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg took a
courageous but also very timely step to display this artist’s work with
its powerful political message: soon it will no longer be legal to
criticise or satirise the country’s leadership and the ruling political
parties under its proposed new laws.
PRESS FREEDOM IN SOUTH AFRICA THREATENED SANEF MAY 3 2012
Source – Press freedom threatened – Sanef
Above: with the ANC-regime always holding up South Africa as a beacon of freedom of speech and a free press while many countries on the continent continue to suffer under the yoke of suppressive African regimes:
the ANC-regime at the moment is also all set to muzzle its news media
with very restrictive censorship laws which would also draw all the
power of the security services into the office of the President. With
its overwhelming majority in parliament, the ANC will push through this
bill: the only thing which some factions could still negotiate about
would be changes in minor clauses of the law.
SA Protection of the Freedom of Information Act(‘proposed’) – Download the Freedom of information act
ATMOSPHERE OF FEAR PERMEATES SOUTH AFRICAN CABINET, SA POLICE
SAPS DESTABILISED BY CRIME INTELLIGENCE BOSS RICHARD MDLULI
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