A sporting landscape of many shades
Zapiro might be well-known for his satirical view on South Africa's political "circus", but in Vuvuzelanation we find a collection of more than 200 iconic sport cartoons from the nation’s sharpest bestselling cartoonist.
As he himself says in this latest collection, he loves sports, because within its crazy emotions and curious actions, find constant inspiration for his work.
Many may not know that Zapiro was once voted CCNN African Sports Journalist of the Year for a single cartoon after the FIFA hosting debacle in 2000.
In this hilarious collection he tells the curious, glorious, calamitous and chaotic story of sport in the new South Africa.
This is indeed a collection for any sport lover, for even though it paints a funny and also sad picture of the sporting landscape, at the same time it provides for an in-depth chronicle of the highs and lows of SA sport.
Sport is the reason in this Rainbow Nation for many cheers, jeers, tears, laughs, and fights, and Zapiro encapsulates these emotions brilliantly in this collection.
With incisive text from journalist Mike Wills, which provides background information to the cartoons, this new collection provides a keen-eyed, irreverent look at everything from Kamp Staaldraad to Bok World Cup glory, from cricketing chokers to champions, from Safa bungling to the emotional success of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
You will find an extraordinary cast of colourful sporting characters that have been captured by the pen of Zapiro over the past twenty years.
They include the likes of Louis Luyt, Jonah Lumo, Hansie Cronje, Caster Semenya, Herschelle Gibbs, Benni McCarthy, Bryan Habana, Lucas Radebe, Peter de Villiers and Oscar Pistorius among them.
This book promises a comprehensive and entertaining look at our nation’s favourite pastimes.
So get yourself in the mood to laugh at our sporting shenanigans, to shake your head in disbelief, to share a merry laugh, all the while walking down the nostalgia lane.
Book courtesy of Jacana Media.
