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Jun 2023
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Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro): Satire in Sou...

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Stephen Sackur is in Cape Town to speak to political cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro). Can satire work in a country still recovering from the prolonged trauma of apartheid?

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