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Controversial South African artist’s new painting of the President repulses South Africans

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Controversial South African visual artist Ayanda Mabulu has repulsed South Africans with his latest work of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma.

The artist’s latest work which depicts President Zuma licking the bottoms of one of the rich businessmen in South Africa, the Guptas, in an aircraft cockpit with his political party’s flag hanging on the side has caused a commotion across South Africa. The painting on exhibition at Constitutional Hill is hanging next to another painting that shows Zuma’s lying on a throne with his private parts exposed.

“The work is really aimed at the masters who are controlling our leader. And the Guptas are one of those masters. It’s not personal because it goes beyond the president‚” Mabulu told Culture Review Magazine in an interview.

According to the artist the work is not a personal attack on the president but rather a response to the scandal involving the rich businessmen swaying the president’s decisions and the constitutional court failure to uphold‚ defend and respect the constitution when it judged the case against the President using state funds to upgrade his Nkandala home.

Another controversial painting by the artist about the Marikana massacre showed Zuma’s dog attacking a miner as Zuma is about to stand on the head of another miner as a concerned-looking Julius Malema looks on according to the Times Live.

Zuma was also previously depicted with his genitals exposed in a painting by Cape Town artist Brett Murray called The Spear‚ which enraged the ANC.

Here are some of the reactions from South Africans on twitter

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