[imagesource: Esa Alexander / Sunday Times]

It’s tough being a member of the EFF.

There you are, just trying to live it up with your Range Rover and Gucci and Louis Vuitton and other brands of the common people, and these pesky investigative journalists won’t stop exposing your hypocrisy.

Julius Malema has had his fair share of tussles with the Daily Maverick’s Pauli van Wyk, as has Floyd Shivambu, and then there’s also the small matter of being called a “p*es”.

Well, if it walks like one, talks like one, and plunders VBS Bank like one…

The most damning evidence of Malema and Shivambu squandering the money of South Africa’s most vulnerable citizens remains the bank cards that were in their possession.

Zapiro is always a fan of sticking the boot in, and in his latest cartoon on the Daily Maverick, titled ‘House of Cards’, he’s done just that:

All those shell companies and attempts to hide the truth, but in the end, they were no match for the kind of journalists that this country owes an immense debt of gratitude to.

Now, if only someone like the Hawks or the NPA would get busy delivering some legal retribution.

As another Zapiro cartoon from recently makes clear, we may be waiting a while:

[sources:dailymav&zapiro]