CAPE TOWN. Just a week after cartoonist Zapiro launched his online news satire, ZA News, the state has accused his puppets of being "puppets". In a stinging attack this morning, the government warned that Zapiro was "pulling all kinds of strings" and accused him of being a "puppet-master" hell-bent on broadcasting a subversive doctrine called "comedy".
Zapiro, currently ranked by the state as the third most dangerous person in the country after national football coach Joel Santana and anyone driving a car after dark near heavily armed police, launched ZA News online after failing to secure a deal with the SABC.
The SABC already has a dedicated news satire show, in which parodies of government ministers behave outrageously without consequences. It is broadcast nightly at 7pm and is called The News.
The new puppet show has been well received by the public, but this morning the government launched a broadside against what it called "a complete puppet show".
According to spokesman Spokes Mashabane, government investigators had discovered that ZA News was not real news and that its presenters were puppets.
"At first we looked at this news report on the television and we said, 'Goodness gracious! We know Comrade Julius's eyes are quite close together but this is very disturbing! What has happened to Comrade Julius? Has he maybe got his head caught in a woodworking vice? Has someone slammed his head in the door of his official BMW? Is one side of his face particularly heavy, so that when he sleeps on his side it slowly compresses?'
"These are the kinds of questions we ask as government."
But, he said, closer investigation had revealed that it was in fact a puppet and not Malema on television.
"We know Zapiro is one of the puppet-masters," said Mashabane. "But who are the others?"
According Zapiro there are two other puppet-masters. However they wished to remain anonymous as they had both promised their wives that they would "stop playing with dolls" and did not want them to know they were involved with the show.
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