Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro, born 1958 in Cape Town, is a South African cartoonist, famous as Zapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions. He is the nephew of British magician David Berglas and cousin to Marvin Berglas, director of Marvin's Magic...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionCartoonist
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It was not one of those preplanned events. It seemed to come out of nowhere.
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It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity. What Mr. Regan had with him was worthless. It wasn't even classified. It posed no harm to the United States.
bad case judgment
It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity,
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I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
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What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
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There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.
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We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
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We don't intend to ask the reporters to reveal their sources,
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There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
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a planner, a schemer, and one capable of deception and dangerous results on his own.
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At which point he, very gently, without virtually saying a word, escorted the little boy from his seat.
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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
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I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
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I was also arrested a number of times.