Tony Namate
Tony has attracted his fair share of criticism and praise for the way his pen cuts political egos and raises the profile of the downtrodden. He continues to anger Zimbabwe's politicians with his biting wit, which they have described as treasonable and unpatriotic. . Namate was the editorial cartoonist of the top selling independent Daily News from its inception in 2000.The paper was bombed twice at its city offices and then its printing factory. The government shut the paper down in 2003 and has since defied court orders to unban it, along with several other outspoken newspapers. The Zimbabwe government does not want people to know too much. Namate has published two collections of his cartoons with the Zimbabwe Independent and Standard newspapers, State of the Nation (1997), and Writing On The Wall (1998). A collection of some of his cartoons titled A Cartoonists' View of Zimbabwe was exhibited and published in Munich, in 2006. Tony's work has been covered in interviews with North Carolina's WUNC Public Radio (The story with Dick Gordon), SABC-TV, Swedish TV, BBC World, VOA's Studio 7, and Daily Telegraph. He is currently working on a political comic book, The Banana Skin Republic. This cartoon may not be reprinted without permission
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