…20;The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womanizer and one with no respect.” President Jacob Zuma, who has four wives, has previously sued local media companies 11 times for defamation. …
…8221; President Jacob Zuma, who has four wives, has sued local media companies 11 times for defamation. Some cases have been settled, others dropped, but most are outstanding. The best-known case is a 2008 suit against one of the country’s most high-profile artists, Zapiro, after he depicted Jacob Zuma about to rape a female figure representing justice – this is due to be heard in Octo…
…his genitals hanging out has been displayed at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg It comes as the governing ANC was asking the High Court to force the Goodman Gallery to remove the painting. The $14,000 1.85m-high Soviet-style, red black and yellow acrylic painting had already been sold. …
…sed its "disgust" at a cartoon of President Jacob Zuma depicted as a penis The president sued the cartoonist, who works for the Mail & Guardian newspaper, after he depicted Jacob Zuma in 2008 about to rape a female figure representing justice. Jacob Zuma was cleared of raping a family friend in 2006. The cartoon, by prominent artist Jonathan Shapiro, known as Zapiro, also features a…
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has been re-elected as leader of country’s governing African National Congress. Jacob Zuma, 70, received an overwhelming majority of votes cast by some 4,000 delegates at the party’s Mangaung conference. Kgalema Motlanthe has been replaced as deputy president by anti-apartheid veteran Cyril Ramaphosa. Jacob Zuma had been favourite to secure the leadership…
…usiness degree among other academic qualifications. He divorced Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa’s candidate for the African Union top post, in 1998. Another wife, Kate, committed suicide in 2000. Jacob Zuma, who became president in 2009, recently celebrated his 70th birthday and has 21 children. A statement on the president’s website said there would be no cost to the government f…
…remains solid, correspondents say. Earlier this month, he was re-elected ANC leader, beating off a challenge by his rival, Kgalema Motlanthe. Jacob Zuma is now almost certain to lead the ANC into the 2014 national election….
too. So they got back together again. I liked him very much. He was a funny man – we always laughed a lot. In all, I was paid six pounds and five shillings for the work. He had a class of about 20 pupils. All the time I was sitting for him they could see me but I was never allowed to see the painting – it always had its back to me. I would nag him: “What are you going to call it…
…I’ve been looking for>>.” The artist also said he had found either a crocodile or snake by following the instructions of Leonardo da Vinci’s journals. Looking at the painting from a 45 degree angle from the left, the path that runs in the scenery behind the Mona Lisa appears almost serpentine. This was supposedly where the angle of the light was best and led to the least amount…
An FBI operation in Miami has recovered a painting which is believed to be a Matisse stolen from a Venezuelan museum more than 10 years ago. A man and a woman allegedly tried to sell Matisse’s Odalisque A La Culotte Rouge to undercover FBI agents. Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman, 46, and Maria Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo, 50, have been arrested and charged with possession of stolen goods. The…
Former hotel staffer Jacob Tomsky has detailed the sketchy, raunchy, and sometimes scandalous things that hotel workers do when guests’ heads are turned in his new book, Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustlers and So-Called Hospitality. After 11 years in the industry, including a couple years at a high-end hotel in New Orleans and several years at a luxury hotel in Manhattan, J…
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has given details of the commission that will investigate the circumstances around the deaths of 44 people at Lonmin Marikana platinum mine. The actions of mining company Lonmin, the government, police, unions, and individuals will all be examined. Thousands of people, some crying uncontrollably, earlier attended a memorial service for the dead. Thirty-four wer…
…y images ever taken of these elusive symbols cut into clay tablets. This is Indiana Jones with software. It’s being used to help decode a writing system called proto-Elamite, used between around 3200 BC and 2900 BC in a region now in the south west of modern Iran. And the Oxford team think that they could be on the brink of understanding this last great remaining cache of undeciphered texts…
…assacre. “There was no need whatsoever for these people to be killed like that,” General Secretary Jeffrey Mphahlele told Reuters news agency. The miners, who are currently earning between 4,000 and 5,000 rand ($484-$605), say they want their salary increased to 12,500 rand ($1,512). South Africa is the largest platinum producer in the world and the dispute has already affected product…
South African prosecutors have decided to provisionally drop murder charges against 270 miners at Lonmin Marikana platinum mine whose colleagues were shot dead by police. The charges cannot be dismissed formally until the end of the inquiry, but prosecutors said all detained miners would be freed. Local authorities used a controversial apartheid-era law to accuse the miners of provoking police to…
Italian specialist art theft police have tracked down and brought home a 400-year-old copy of a lost Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece – an incomplete fresco painting of the Battle of Anghiari. It once decorated a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, the Tuscan city’s monumental town hall. The copy is temporarily on show until the New Year at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, the official…
It looks like Sylvester Stallone is a few centuries old as he was recently spotted in a 16th century painting at Vatican City. Raphael’s 1511 painting depicts Pope Gregory IX, but in the background, you can see Sylvester Stallone look alike peaking over the Pope’s shoulder. Harvard student Anthony Zonfrell saw the painting and posted a picture to Reddit where it quickly gained more than 700,000 v…
Macaulay Culkin was quite the walking canvas on Thursday – as he wandered around New York in jeans slathered in paint. The actor-turned-artist looked a little dazed as he ambled around with his head down, before jumping into a cab. Macaulay Culkin, 32, teamed his look with a leather jacket and dirty boots, complete with shades. He has recently turned his $2 million New York apartment into a…
…f impressionist and modern art, setting a record for the artist. Works by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro also went under the hammer in the first of two weeks of major auctions in New York. However, about 30% of the 69 paintings up for auction failed to find buyers, Reuters reported. Claude Monet’s oil-on-canvas Nympheas – painting in 1905 during the artist’s years at Giverny –…
…a plastic cow, and cost about $50. The woman took it to a Virginia auction house where experts said they believed it was Renoir’s Paysage Bords de Seine – a river scene – from about 1879. An artwork by French master Pierre-Auguste Renoir bought at a flea market in the US may turn out to be a rare bargain The auctioneers expect it to sell for up to $100,000 later this month. It…
e painting was loaned out to the National Gallery in London and last year it went on display at the Courtauld Gallery. Any decision on the export licence application will be deferred until 16 December 2012, with scope for a further deferral to 16 June 2013 should a serious intention to purchase the painting, at the recommended price of £50 million, be put forward. …
Miners are being intimidated into staying away from work at the South African Lonmin platinum mine where 34 people were recently shot dead by police, the owners say. Lonmin says just 13% of workers have reported for duty on Monday and says miners have been threatened. Hundreds of miners have reportedly gathered outside the mine, amid a heavy police presence. Leaders of the ruling ANC are expected…
Still Life With Meadow Flowers and Roses, a painting once thought to be by Vincent van Gogh but later dismissed has now been confirmed as an authentic work by the Dutch master. The painting, originally considered a Van Gogh, has belonged to a Dutch museum since 1974. But doubts crept in due to the painting style and the unusual canvas size and it was discredited in 2003. However, experts have now…
…ished The Battle of Anghiari lies beneath Giorgio Vasari’s work. It is believed Leonardo Da Vinci started painting his fresco – which is considered by some to be his finest work – in 1504 but abandoned the project because of problems arising from his experimental oil painting technique. The room was later renovated and Giorgio Vasari painted his fresco in 1563. Maurizio Seracini…
…” Dan Emmett also accuses Bill Clinton of putting his own life and those of his agents at risk by insisting on a “totally pointless photo op” on the North Korea-South Korea border. During the trip in 1993, Dan Emmett said the former President Bill Clinton went too far along the bridge separating the two nations, according to the Washington Examiner. “No-one seemed to know if President Clinton gra…
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