S'Thembiso Msomi's columns are often interesting and offer an intelligent view of daily matters. This week he missed the boat ("Zuma has become the 21st-century Saartjie Baartman", yesterday).
I do not know enough to comment on the military or economic reasons for the change in South Africa beginning in 1989, or for De Klerk’s role, but there are two major factors that led to the massive mandate for change given in the last white referendum.
Brett Murray's depiction of President Jacob Zuma is clearly nowhere close to being artistic.
Instead of chastising Brett Murray, perhaps we should stand back and take a good look at the way our country is being run, and judge whether or not we are going in the direction we want to go.
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe is quoted as saying the courts should not be used to "tamper" with how the government spends its money ("Hands off the government", May 22).
From the outset I want to state that I feel the controversial Brett Murray painting The Spear is denigrating and extremely out of touch with the cultural context in which the majority of South Africans live.
We just arrived back in South Africa, after a visit to Europe, and landed in the middle of this giant furore over a painting in the Goodman Gallery.
