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May 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Addressing the crowd, Gwede Mantashe, the ANC Secretary General, said their
support was critical to the outcome of the case. “We will not win in court
what we have not won on the streets,” he said.
He also called on “all peace-loving South
Africans” to boycott the City Press, a popular Sunday newspaper,
over its refusal to remove an image of The Spear, which depicts Mr Zuma in a
Lenin-like stance with his genitals protruding from his fly, from its
website.
The ANC has sought to portray the row as one race, and those who support the
display of the painting as members of a white elite unconcerned about riding
roughshod over African cultural values.
Several members of Jacob Zuma’s family sat in court’s public gallery. He has
said that he was “shocked and felt personally offended and violated” by Cape
Town artist Brett Murray’s work.
Early in the case, which was broadcast live on national television, Judge
Neels Claassen ruled that he would only consider whether Mr Zuma’s dignity
as a person, rather than a president, had been damaged.
“The right to dignity and privacy do not apply to the ANC, and Mr Zuma in his
capacity as president of South Africa and as president of the ANC,” he said.
Mr Malindi argued that the court should take into account not just the
opinions of a “super class” of art experts, but how the painting was likely
to be seen by the country’s black majority, who were denied education under
apartheid.
The lawyer, a former anti-apartheid fighter who was tortured for his
activities, said that many blacks still lived in poverty after the advent of
democracy in 1994. He then put his head in his hands and burst into tears,
prompting colleagues to put their arms around his shoulders.
The hearing was adjourned to a later date. The Spear was removed from the
walls of the Goodman Gallery after it was vandalised by two men on Tuesday
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