Tony Grogan Cartoons
University of Cape Town
Tony Grogan is a cartoonist, illustrator and artist living in Cape Town. Items are property of the University of Cape Town Libraries. For information about acquiring a copy and/or permission to reproduce an image, please contact the Special Collections of the University of Cape Town Libraries. Copyright held by Tony Grogan.
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UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1983
The stifling of the media continued unabated during the PW Botha years. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1982
Under the Group Areas and Independent Homeland policies, consolidation often meant changing boundaries and cutting up and parcelling out land according to the claims of� homeland leaders and against the …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1981
A response of the government to the misery and suffering caused by the Group Areas Act which had people being moved out of their homes to their own racial areas …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1979
A reader drew attention to a scandalous matter featuring �in one of the Cape Times comic strips. Popular hero, Dr Kildare was defying the Immorality Act by falling in love …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1979
Over the years the National Party continued to gnaw away at media freedom until there were over 100 laws determining what could and could not be published. Description provided by …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1979
During the apartheid years the nations morals were zealously protected by the Censor Board. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1978
The main core of the information scandal in the 1970s was the secret funding of an English language newspaper using taxpayers� money. Fertilizer magnate, Louis Luyt, acted as a government …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1978
The Department of Information, with its flamboyant secretary Eschel Rhoodie at the helm, did its best to improve the international image of the pariah apartheid state. Description provided by Tony …
UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1978
Verwoerd�s grand design of apartheid with blacks all living in separate homelands had one major flaw - what to do with urban blacks needed to keep the country's industry running …
Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) houses, built in a rushed and haphazard policy to recover the enormous backlog developed during the apartheid years, resulted in poor building standards and shoddy …
Mandela retired and handed over to his successor, Thabo Mbeki, the solid foundations and pillars of a democracy which was a work in progress. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
The public protest and unrest which plagued the eighties was met with increased government oppression. P.W. Botha declared a state of emergency giving the police special powers, restricting the media …
The official white version of South African history was biased, simplistic and distorted. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Certain whites, feeling their cultural heritage and independence threatened, continued to yearn for an exclusive homeland. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Under apartheid�s so-called dumping bills large numbers of black people were forced to relocate from urban areas to barren and remote areas in the homelands. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
Considering South Africa's pressing needs, Defence seemed to get a disproportionate allocation of the budget. Description provided by Tony Grogan.
The National Party, in the person of Minister of Constitutional Affairs, Chris Heunis, removes one of the pillars of democracy. The image of the tortoise was prompted by the Conservative …
In spite of climate change and warnings of future water shortages and the need to adopt conservative measures of water usage, South Africans continued to waste water as if there …
Early negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the National Party government were marked by both parties taking up intransigent positions which caused disruptions in the negotiating process. Description …
Vitamin pills sold by German huckster, Helmud Rath , was favoured by Minister of Health , Manto Tshabalala, �as the preferred cure for HIV/AIDS