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Yes, of course you remember Ayanda Mabulu.

In case you’re wondering what’s behind his back in that picture above, you can see the full image HERE.

Yeah, now you definitely remember.

Over the weekend images of Mabulu’s latest artwork started doing the rounds, and it was quickly met with indignation and disgust from all associated with the ANC.

News24 with this:

In a statement, ANCWL spokesperson Meokgo Matuba said Mabulu was “a rented tool used by the enemies of the ANC to assassinate characters of ANC leaders”.

“Mr Mabulu is just an unfortunate mentally colonised artist who has been brainwashed [to think] that the political leaders, in particular Africans, must be attacked without shame and remorse,” Matuba said.

“He is one of the lost souls in the hands of the exploiters advancing their wishes for the return of the pre-1994 apartheid and colonialism system…

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa called the painting an “affront not only to the individuals he regularly defiles but to the very founding values of our nation and an insult to our collective morality”.

“Mabulu has no conception of our societal mores and is a disgrace to any attempt that may or may not have been made to socialise him on our shared morality,” Kodwa said in a statement.

OK, I think you’re ready to see what all the fuss is about, with this below on display at the Kalashnikovv Gallery in Braamfontein.

Warning – graphic imagery ahead.

Also, trigger warning:.

Final warning:

I’ll be honest, I’m not a huge fan of this one.

There’s NDZ in her pose, which is problematic, but there’s something in the background that is also worth talking about. Here’s the Daily Vox:

…a large canvas shows a clothed Zuma with his phallus, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma being penetrated by a rolled-up ANC-headlined newspaper. In the background, the back of a naked Kuzwayo [you may remember her better by the name Khwezi] and other women and girls are pictured. Text on the side of the artwork reads: “In this dog we fucked even with his bastard and prostitute he went on to rape khwezi and now his ex wife wants us to vote ourselves into rape kingdom rapedom”.

On the one hand we must never forget about Kuzwayo and that our president was acquitted of rape. However, we cannot reduce Kuzwayo to the woman who accused Jacob Zuma of rape…

Ayanda Mabulu can carry on making his vulgar and attention-seeking art – that’s what freedom of artistic expression is about – but let Fezeka Kuzwayo rest in peace. Let the survivors of sexual violence be in peace.

Given what’s going on right now around the world, with women (and men) sharing their experiences of #MeToo, that point is worth making some noise about.

[sources:news24&dailyvox]