Kobus Galloway was onlangs ‘n gas op kykNET se aktualiteitsprogram Flits waar hy met Bouwer Bosch gesels het oor sy Idees vol vrees-reeks en sy nuwe boek, Where’s Zuma?

Met die intrapslag is Galloway reeds op sy stukke. Bosch: “Welkom Kobus, lekker om jou op die show te hê … huge fan, ou.” Galloway: “Jy hét ‘n bietjie gewig opgetel.”

 
Galloway vertel dat die kunsgogga hom al op vyfjarige ouderdom gebyt het en die komedie het kort daarna gevolg. Sy ouers het hom as kind na ‘n kunsskool in Bredasdorp gestuur, en toe sy juffrou sy katte aangesien het vir leeus was die koeël deur die kerk.

Oor sy jongste boek Where’s Zuma?, wat gegrond is op die gewilde Where’s Wally-reeks deur Martin Handford, vertel Galloway: “As jy die president klaar gekry het dan’s daar ‘n lysie van ander mense wat jy kan soek. As jy hou van Afrikaanse musiek kan vir jy Steve Hofmeyr gaan soek.” Ander versteekte bekendes sluit in Die Antwoord, Jack Parow en Oscar Pistorius.

Oor sy loopbaan as komediant vertel die komediant-kunstenaar dat hy vanaf 2009 vir drie jaar “geskerpskerts” het: “Ek het altyd ‘n probleem gehad om met mense te praat of as my foon lui wil ek my broek natmaak, so ek het dit gebruik om self-confidence op te bou en met mense te praat.”

Galloway gesels meer oor sy kreatiewe proses, hoe hy kritiek hanteer en hoe hy voel oor mense wat plagiaat pleeg. Hy vertel ook dat hy baie daarvan hou wanneer onderwysers sy spotprente in klaskamers gebruik om idiome te verduidelik.

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• Where’s Zuma? deur Kobus Galloway
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• Idees vol vrees deur Kobus Galloway
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Frik du Preez ken van stories vertel. Die oud-Springbok en skrywer van Boots en brannewyn: Snaakse stories uit die rugbywêreld het verlede jaar staaltjies met Bun Booyens gedeel oor hoe dit was om in die 1960′s rugby te speel.

Netwerk24 het die storie opgespoor, afgestof en weer gedeel, en hoe bly is rugbyaanhangers nie daaroor nie?

Du Preez het vertel hoe dit was om destyds vir die beroemde afrigter “Dok” Danie Craven te speel. Hy’t verder gesels oor 1965 wat ‘n besonderse moeilike jaar was vir die Springbokke, hul groot kragmetings teen Nieu-Seeland, Frankryk en Brittanje, die moeilikste speler wat hy ooit teëgekom het en die grootste oomblik in sy sportloopbaan.

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Wie was die moeilikste ou teen wie jy gespeel het?

Hulle was almal moeilik, maar [die All Black] Colin Meads en sy broer Stan. Hulle het mos saam gespeel, maar Stan het net daar in Nieu-Seeland gespeel, want iemand moes na die plaas kyk. Hy was baie beter as Colin in die lynstaan. Stan het vir my gas gegee.
Dan was daar Benoît Dauga. Daar in Frankryk het hy my geëet in die lynstane, maar gelukkig was daar nie televisie nie, so die mense kon nie sien hoe gee hy my pak nie.

As jy nou terugkyk, wat is die grootste oomblik?

Toe ek gekies is vir die Springboktoerspan sonder dat ek vir Noord-Transvaal gespeel het. Daardie Saterdagaand luister ek nie eens na die spanne nie, ek het nog ’n meisie drive-in toe gevat. Ek hoor toe die ouens langs my begin hande klap, maar ek is te skaam om te gaan vra. Toe ek by die huis kom, sê hulle vir my: “Jy is nou ’n Springbok.”

• Volledige artikel: Netwerk24

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• Boots en brannewyn: Snaakse stories uit die rugbywêreld deur Frik du Preez en Chris Schoeman
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To celebrate the publication of Where’s Zuma?, the new Where’s Wally inspired book from Kobus Galloway, Random House Struik is giving away a holiday voucher worth R5 000 along with a copy of the book.

To stand a chance to win, you need to complete three challenges, finding Zuma in busy pictures from Where’s Zuma?. The picture from the first week of the competition was of the president’s private residence at Nkandla, the second of the 2015 State of the Nation Address and the third of the Gupta Wedding at Sun City.

The competition closes on 4 December. To stand a chance to win, you need to answer the question about where you spotted Zuma and enter your details on the Random House Struik’s website.

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One lucky reader and super sleuth can stand a chance of winning big in our three-part Where’s Zuma? challenge.

The competition will run over three weeks, and each week participants need to find our elusive president in Kobus Galloway’s new book, which is modeled on the famous Where’s Wally? series.

To stand a chance of winning a copy of Where’s Zuma?, as well as a R5 000 holiday voucher, visit the Random House Struik website, complete the entry form and answer one question:

Where’s Zuma hiding?

A. In the bushes

B. In the helicopter

C. In the swimming pool
 

This week, Zuma is hanging out at his Nkandla homestead. To see where he hiding, have a look at the extract from Where’s Zuma? in PDF format.

The competition will end on 4 December, and participants must enter all three weeks of the competition to be considered for the prize. The two runner-up winners will each receive a copy of Where’s Zuma?.

• Enter the competition on the Random House Struik website

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Zebra Press is proud to present the new book from Kobus Galloway, Where’s Zuma?

From the arms deal to the courtroom, from his own wedding(s) to the Gupta wedding, see if you can spot Jacob Zuma in these hilarious cartoons. Find him in the election queue, in Parliament and at Nkandla. Whether he’s travelling in a bluelight brigade or in the darkness thanks to loadshedding, can you see him?

And that’s not all. You can also look out for Julius Malema, Helen Zille, the Shaik brothers, Barack Obama, Sepp Blatter, Steve Hofmeyr, Oscar Pistorius and many many more!

If you’re an adult with a political sense of humour, this book is for you. And kids might enjoy it too.

About the author

Kobus Galloway started drawing at age six, and after school he studied graphic design. He now lives in Cape Town, where he works as an illustrator and infographic designer for Media24’s weekly publications. He is the creator of Idees Vol Vrees, which has quickly become the most popular Afrikaans cartoon series in the world. In his spare time Kobus is a stand-up comedian and freelance designer/illustrator. He is the owner of Komedie Media CC and has worked with local comedians, actors and musicians.

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“It’s Sunday and #FeesHaveFallen (and so did the Springboks!) But you know last week was not history repeating itself.”

 
Evita Bezuidenhout, the most famous white woman in South Africa, was inspired by the students who participated in last week’s #FeesMustFall protest and decided to exercise her right to free speech. Every Sunday leading up to the 2016 South African Municipal Elections, she will give a recap of the week’s news in a series of videos entitled Evita’s Free Speech.

“I think the only free thing we really have is free speech and we saw a lot of that in the last few days,” Evita says.

“My three little grandchildren, my born frees (not black, not white, Barack Obama beige), they said to me stop complaining in the kitchen, stop moaning in your letters to the newspapers, nobody listens, nobody reads.” This is why Evita decided to “get onto the internet highway” and share her opinions with the world.

Evita believes that free educations starts at home, and says when her grandchildren protest again, “this time I will march with them”.

Watch part 1 of Evita’s Free Speech video series:

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• Between the Devil and the Deep: A Memoir of Acting and Reacting by Pieter-Dirk Uys
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• Never Too Naked: Bambi Kellermann by Pieter-Dirk Uys and Bambi Kellermann
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• Evita\’s Bossie Sikelela by Evita Bezuidenhout
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• Evita’s BlackBessie by Evita Bezuidenhout
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Tom Eaton, the wit responsible for The Unauthorised History of South Africa by Stienie Dikderm and Herodotus Hlope, has written a column about Homo naledi, the human ancestor recently discovered in the Cradle of Humankind.

In the article, Eaton says, “I know I’m not going to celebrate Naledi as part of my human heritage”. He sidesteps the massive excitement about the fossil discovery, but not because of religious belief or paranoia about racism like many people making themselves heard on social media.

Eaton rejects the family connection with Homo naledi, while recognising the species’ place in his genetic make-up, because he cannot identify with ancestors who “passed on almost nothing to their children except their DNA and their fleas”. Instead, this heritage month, Eaton is celebrating the “inventors, philosophers, artists, even a few warriors” and “the scientists who try to drag us out of the muck despite our determination to return there”.

Read the article:

Homo naledi is a racist plot using pseudo-science to link Africans to sub-human, baboon-like creatures.

It sounded mad, and Mathole Motshekga and Zwelinzima Vavi were jeered on social media for expressing it. I joined the chorus, because gigantic ignorance should not be tolerated in our leaders. But

I can also understand where such paranoia comes from.

• Complete article: Rand Daily Mail

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Tom Eaton recently wrote a piece for Times LIVE about Dean Allen’s book, Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa.

Eaton says Allen “paints a vivid picture” of the history of sport at the end of the 19th century, specifically cricket, which became a “potent ideological tool” in Britain’s new colonies.

Eaton praises the book’s physical appearance – “an object that demands to be picked up and paged through” – as well as the excellent introduction by Professor Andre Odendaal. Reflecting on the main figure in Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa, Eaton draws the conclusion that James Logan was indeed a rather shrewd tenderpreneur.

Read the article:

Empire, War & Cricket in South Africa by Dean Allen paints a vivid picture of how cricket was injected into South Africa as much for political and propagandistic reasons as for sporting ones; and he explores the life of a man who was crucial to this project. James Logan is called many things in the book – ambitious, hard-working, self-aggrandising – but most modern South Africans would recognise him for what he was: a tenderpreneur.

• Complete article: Times LIVE

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• The Unauthorised History of South Africa by Stienie Dikderm, Herodotus Hlope
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Never Too Naked: Bambi Kellermann is the fictional autobiography of Evita Bezuidenhout’s younger sister, Bambi Kellermann.

Bambi has lived a life very different to her sister’s. Her marriage to a Nazi took her on a journey through Europe where she rubbed shoulders with The Beatles, Hemingway, Marlene Dietrich and Ava Gardner, among others.

Namibiana Buchdepot has shared an extract from Never Too Naked in which Bambi visits her mother, Ouma Ossewania Kakebenia Poggenpoel, in an old-age home on the West Coast. In the excerpt Ouma Ossewania is paging through an old photo album with the new mayor of a now democratic South Africa and Bambi has to translate her mother’s tales (and profanities) into English for the mayor.

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Ouma Ossewania gave no sign that she recognised me. She indicated that I sit on the other side of the mayor, then pointed at the pages of the photo album and explained in Afrikaans. I translated for the poor man, trapped in this web by the old spider. ‘Those are photos of the leaders of the National Party,’ I said, pointing to the men who had taken us down to hell. The mayor, whom Ma still called Johannes, whistled through his new teeth. ‘Eish!’ he said. ‘Is this what they looked like? So friendly. Like any good baas.’ Was he making fun of me? I glanced at his face for clues, but simply saw a fascination with the men responsible for his suffering. ‘Eish!’ ‘Nee,’ said my mother. ‘Nie Uys nie; Malan. Dr D.F. Malan.’ She then descended into a monologue of contempt, using Afrikaans gems for ‘arsehole’ and ‘old twat’ to describe this icon of apartheid. I found it hard to translate. ‘You don’t understand Afrikaans?’ I whispered to the mayor. ‘Of course I do, but she won’t believe me. Please just translate.’ The next in line was J.G. Strijdom, second prime minister, also known as the Lion of the North. Ma called him a fart and a piece of shit. ‘She says she never liked him either. She says…’ – and I had to think – ‘she says he had no backside.’ I wanted to laugh. The mayor avoided my eyes and bit his lip.

• Keep reading: Namibiana Buchdepot

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• Never Too Naked: Bambi Kellermann by Pieter-Dirk Uys and Bambi Kellermann
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Test your book knowledge and stand a chance to win a Random House Struik book of your choice to the value of R500.

To enter, simply visit the Random Reads website, fill in your details and solve Kobus Galloway’s cartoon puzzle which depicts the name of a recently published book from Umuzi. The book is available in both English and Afrikaans.

Hint: Galloway, the creator of the Idees vol vrees series, has drawn the Afrikaans title of the book.

Have a look at the Random House Struik website for more options.
 

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