South Africa’s president has filed a £440,000-defamation suit over a cartoon depicting him with his trousers undone, preparing to rape a blindfolded, female figure symbolising justice, a lawyer for the newspaper that printed it said today.
Eric van der Berg, a lawyer for South Africa’s Sunday Times, said notice from the president’s lawyers had arrived at the paper’s Johannesburg offices Monday.
The cartoon caused a storm when the Times published it in 2008, two years after Jacob Zuma had been acquitted of rape charges. But van der Berg said Zuma had not followed up on threats to sue until now.
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