Cartoon controversies: law student views about free speech and Zapiro’s satirisation of South Africa’s president

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dc.citation.doi10.1080/02587203.2017.1338840en_ZA
dc.citation.epage235en_ZA
dc.citation.issue2en_ZA
dc.citation.spage214en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBronstein, V.
dc.contributor.authorGlaser, D.
dc.contributor.authorWerbeloff, M.
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-10T13:48:40Z
dc.date.available2017-11-10T13:48:40Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-22
dc.description.abstractAlthough the Constitutional Court has been a protector of freedom of expression, major controversies about speech illustrate deep divisions among South Africans. This article explores attitudes of law students at the University of the Witwatersrand to freedom of expression. The authors take the realist view that these students are future legal interpreters of the Constitution and their attitudes may well have an impact on future jurisprudence. They follow-up previous research which measured attitudes to political freedom of expression by asking students about their responses to a sample of Zapiro cartoons depicting President Zuma. After exploring the role of cartoons in a democracy, the article looks at new data obtained by questioning final year students about the same cartoons four years after the initial study. The new data substantially confirms earlier results which indicate that Wits students would not robustly support Zapiro’s right to create his more controversial caricatures. This result reinforces the view that supporters of freedom of expression in South Africa may not be able to call upon consistent or robust elite and popular support in resisting banning or criminalisation of speech.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMM2017en_ZA
dc.description.urlhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02587203.2017.1338840en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationBronstein, V.,Glaser, D. and Werbeloff, M. 2017. Cartoon controversies: law student views about free speech and Zapiro’s satirisation of South Africa’s president. South African Journal on Human Rights 33(2), pp. 214–235en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-7203 (Print)
dc.identifier.issn1996-2126 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/23393
dc.journal.titleSouth African Journal on Human Rightsen_ZA
dc.journal.volume33en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_ZA
dc.rights© 2017 South African Journal on Human Rightsen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Law
dc.subjectCensorshipen_ZA
dc.subjectMediaen_ZA
dc.subjectFreedom of expressionen_ZA
dc.subject.otherSDG-10: Reduced inequalities
dc.titleCartoon controversies: law student views about free speech and Zapiro’s satirisation of South Africa’s presidenten_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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