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Immense Controversy has broken lose in South Africa over the current ruling president Zuma and a portrait of a imaginary penis depicted as his on the painting. Tell me, how did we move from being worried about E-tolls, Youth Subsidy and Secrecy Bill to focusing on a penis drawing by some Australian painter (whom by the way gave the president a swag by posing him as the Johnny Walker pose and Kanye West posture) Some tedious things are expected to be fussed over by those with understandably a low I.Q score or below average. Hence I believe some things are to be dealt with in a more grown up manner or using your head rather than your pride. If you are involved with more than one woman (married to 6 with 21 children) that surely qualifies you as a "womaniser" unless my understanding of wikipedia and urban dictionaries is totally obscure. How many stories and discriminations have come-out before!? Waaay bigger than this painting and its penis... thousands and thousands and yet a huge fuss is being made about this one. I applaud the painter for about 3 reasons: 1. He surely has made huge publicity and that is good for the gallery showing the painting and that is money to his pocket. 2. If the plan was to get heads turning... oh heads have turned and to an extent a strike to "rescue" the president's dignity happened. 3. To test the waters and activate creative thinking and debate in all south africans. This painting and controversy has surely left the nation speaking and brewing with mixed emotions and feelings of racism( the painter has been depicted as being racist), freedom of speech (on FB and Twitter we no longer allowed to voice our views as we see it), freedom of expression( uhm.. the painting) and equal rights for all (the black guy that vandalised the painting was assaulted and yet the white guy that defaced the painting with red paint was spoken to in a civilised manner) I feel... in my opinion, we moved 18 years forward and 20 steps backwards in our morality, values, pride and being secure. Today, insecurities rule! Priorities are upside down! Racism is confused! Prejudice rules! Hypocrisy mists the provinces!

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