A strange, miniature bronze statue with a message has survived two days on top of Lion’s Head.

The statue, bearing a strong resemblance to president Jacob Zuma, mysteriously appeared at the top of the popular hiking destination over the past weekend. Posted underneath was a plaque bearing the message ‘If a criminal like this can get a statue, so can I – JZ’.

Controversy is never far away when it comes to depicting the nation’s leader and this statue was no different. A sex toy had been placed in the statues hand, in a pose strikingly similar to Cape Town artist Brett Murray’s The Spear.

 

It is unclear if the statue is related to the ongoing saga of the Cecil John Rhodes statue at UCT, but likely assumptions can be made about the bronze figurine’s message.

On Monday morning the statue was found to have been broken in half. Nobody seems to know who erected the statue or why it was there, but it’s clear as daylight that somebody really wanted to have their art noticed, albeit in semi-bad taste.

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  • Alexander Blows
    Alexander Blows
    April 6, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    Julies malema ?

  • Chad 'Murdoc' Maree
    Chad 'Murdoc' Maree
    April 6, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    Lol

  • Anita Hearn
    Anita Hearn
    April 6, 2015 at 4:46 pm

    Lol ask the EFF..

  • Berta Louw
    Berta Louw
    April 6, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Jan van Riebeeck he gets the blame for everything!!! Lol

  • Faldiemoose Moose
    Faldiemoose Moose
    April 6, 2015 at 5:16 pm

    sell it by the scrapyard

  • Gabrielle van Hinsbergen
    Gabrielle van Hinsbergen
    April 6, 2015 at 5:19 pm

    Just wait until someone throws poo on it…>.

  • Aliweyah Edross Farrokhian
    Aliweyah Edross Farrokhian
    April 6, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    Tokolosh???

  • Derrick Lesar
    Derrick Lesar
    April 6, 2015 at 5:20 pm

    Smash it broken proberly some evil thing

  • Marlene John
    Marlene John
    April 6, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    did you send him Allen En Linda Samuel??to sort evil doers?/

  • Nadia Meyer De Beer
    Nadia Meyer De Beer
    April 6, 2015 at 6:00 pm

    must be maria and jan van riebeecks baby…..

  • Michelle Matzdorff
    Michelle Matzdorff
    April 6, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    Connie Matzdorff

  • Allen En Linda Samuel
    Allen En Linda Samuel
    April 6, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    Looks quite a bit like Zuma!

  • Jessica Howie
    Jessica Howie
    April 6, 2015 at 6:49 pm

    Jacubzooma

  • Jessica Howie
    Jessica Howie
    April 6, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    Lol

  • Anthony Kruger
    Anthony Kruger
    April 6, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    Ja i think its jan van riebeeck…..poor oll Jan

  • Chris Whyman
    Chris Whyman
    April 6, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    Ye its ugly!

  • Thalitha Landu
    Thalitha Landu
    April 6, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    AnGo ZuMa Lo ?

  • Gary Nuttall
    Gary Nuttall
    April 6, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    If it’s bronze – it’s not gonna survive much longer up there …I give it four days before it gets “mugged “U0001f604

  • Isabel Campos Jones
    Isabel Campos Jones
    April 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    Miniture Zuma

  • Hannes Rheeder
    Hannes Rheeder
    April 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm

    Ou STLORTKOP……..steek die etter brand

  • Almaroe Karg
    Almaroe Karg
    April 6, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    If you want it gone throw poo at it

  • Iris Gibson
    Iris Gibson
    April 6, 2015 at 7:41 pm

    Gross!

  • Nora Shepherd
    Nora Shepherd
    April 6, 2015 at 7:43 pm

    Looks like chocolate to me

  • Zandile Felane
    Zandile Felane
    April 6, 2015 at 7:45 pm

    Gotta go n see it…lol

  • Heather Turner
    Heather Turner
    April 6, 2015 at 7:45 pm

    Genetically modified Easter Bunny

  • Paul Tanner
    Paul Tanner
    April 6, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    Must be from Mars, or n klein Zuma! Don’t tellwe have another idiot in the country!!!

  • Tatum Khoury
    Tatum Khoury
    April 6, 2015 at 7:57 pm

    Johan Ackerman Hannah Alexandra Randera

  • Marshall Kiewiet
    Marshall Kiewiet
    April 6, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    When was this wasnt yesterday

  • Nick Burger
    Nick Burger
    April 6, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    Throw poo at it.

  • Sienie Vd Westhuizen
    Sienie Vd Westhuizen
    April 6, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    Ha Ha HA

  • John Adams
    John Adams
    April 6, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    Offspring of julzuma.. Hehehe wat @ pity itz bin removed already.. Can u imagine what the genetics wuld hav bin???

  • Les Harwin
    Les Harwin
    April 6, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    It needs a shower head to wash off the extrementU0001f622

  • Razia Dalwai
    Razia Dalwai
    April 6, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    Looks like Julius Malema’s wax statue..lol..lmk

  • Johan Ackerman
    Johan Ackerman
    April 6, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    Haha Tatum I have no idea how it got there! I promise!! He says as he hides the drawings of the tiny bronze statue U0001f609

  • Peter Kruger
    Peter Kruger
    April 6, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    Looks demonic

  • Jacobus Groenewald
    Jacobus Groenewald
    April 6, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    et phone home from Lions head!

  • Petro Paulsen
    Petro Paulsen
    April 6, 2015 at 8:25 pm

    Lol noooooo… no nothing about it. Off with the head!

  • Maureen Karakondis
    Maureen Karakondis
    April 6, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    Sis

  • Lorraine Fox
    Lorraine Fox
    April 6, 2015 at 8:36 pm

    Interesting never been ever that there !

  • Lorraine Fox
    Lorraine Fox
    April 6, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Don’t tell me it will start a fire !!!

  • Brian Cox
    Brian Cox
    April 6, 2015 at 8:44 pm

    Brilliant! All I know is that it was not there on Friday morning!

  • Brian Cox
    Brian Cox
    April 6, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    Even better! Someone finally broke zoomie! 😀

  • Faranaaz Fortune
    Faranaaz Fortune
    April 6, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    This is scary and very disturbing

  • Tracy Precious Musiimenta
    Tracy Precious Musiimenta
    April 6, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    Maud Thuysbaert

  • Fourie Maria
    Fourie Maria
    April 6, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    The tokka lossie Xhosa belief

  • Johannes Beyers
    Johannes Beyers
    April 6, 2015 at 9:14 pm

    Dis Zuma!!!!!!!!!

  • Phùmlanì Bòbby Ntamø
    Phùmlanì Bòbby Ntamø
    April 6, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    That’s not even on the top

  • Nicole Williams
    Nicole Williams
    April 6, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    its our president JZ!!!!

  • Bertus Heydenrych
    Bertus Heydenrych
    April 6, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    Put a tire round it’s neck and burn the bloody thing. If you don’t, it is going to bite you sometime in the future!!

  • Carolyn Ann Dewrance
    Carolyn Ann Dewrance
    April 6, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    Stunning piece of art work, send it to an art gallery, and name it after Zuma

  • Rose Torode
    Rose Torode
    April 6, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    Dis Malema se toor dokkie

  • Marlo Erasmus
    Marlo Erasmus
    April 6, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    Spraypaint it green!!

  • Colleen Gray
    Colleen Gray
    April 6, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    Our country citizens are SICK

  • Siham Surve
    Siham Surve
    April 6, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    weird..

  • Matt Spechtler
    Matt Spechtler
    April 6, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    isn’t that ZUMA? LMAO

  • Cheri Baines
    Cheri Baines
    April 6, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    Hahahahahaha thought it was a chocolate statue showing good spirit for Easter lmao!!!

  • Warren Lessing
    Warren Lessing
    April 6, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    Rory Petzer

  • Rory Petzer
    Rory Petzer
    April 6, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    #newsbyrory is already onto it! Rory Petzer: Comedian / Entertainer

  • Fred Fraser
    Fred Fraser
    April 6, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    Sell it to a scrap dealer, must be a good few kilo’s of bronze there.

  • Thami Adaeze Anyaduba
    Thami Adaeze Anyaduba
    April 6, 2015 at 10:31 pm

    Tokka lossie is Afrikaans Forie

  • Linka Basson
    Linka Basson
    April 6, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    Juan Farrell

  • Basil Carelse
    Basil Carelse
    April 6, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    Some youngsters leaned against it this morning it fell and broke, so that’s the end of it

  • Baba van den Berg
    Baba van den Berg
    April 6, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    Gate seven where would thst orion

  • Nkateko Sammy Marcus
    Nkateko Sammy Marcus
    April 6, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Tooo soooon people toooo sooon

  • Tumeka Chasana
    Tumeka Chasana
    April 6, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    Why? if I may ask.

  • Elgean Keel
    Elgean Keel
    April 6, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    Looks like jacob zuma and his SPEAR …

  • Tumeka Chasana
    Tumeka Chasana
    April 6, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    Yeeeer basile yhaz

  • Denzil Newman
    Denzil Newman
    April 6, 2015 at 11:18 pm

    Wtf?

  • Lily Beard
    Lily Beard
    April 7, 2015 at 1:23 am

    Send the EFF to deal with it . . .

  • Gavin Smitsdorff
    Gavin Smitsdorff
    April 7, 2015 at 2:13 am

    #rhodeshasrisen

  • Gavin Smitsdorff
    Gavin Smitsdorff
    April 7, 2015 at 2:14 am

    Maybe the students at UCT know something about it?

  • Shahieda Sasman
    Shahieda Sasman
    April 7, 2015 at 4:54 am

    May be he the one robbing people on mountains

  • Pierre Mostert
    Pierre Mostert
    April 7, 2015 at 4:57 am

    Muhammad Ali

  • Mogamat Tape Samsodien
    Mogamat Tape Samsodien
    April 7, 2015 at 5:06 am

    Zuma se neef eugene tereblanch

  • Craig Masterman
    Craig Masterman
    April 7, 2015 at 5:30 am

    Wtf is that

  • Craig Masterman
    Craig Masterman
    April 7, 2015 at 5:31 am

    Black mini me

  • Jillian Kapot
    Jillian Kapot
    April 7, 2015 at 6:13 am

    No, this one won’t get covered in green paint or have posters that say “… must fall”. It doesn’t look like it’s from the previous Government hahahaha! Remember, only statues that look white gets taken or smeared with paint…

  • Courtney Jackson
    Courtney Jackson
    April 7, 2015 at 6:22 am

    In biblical times the pagans would worship and idolize gold statues as a false god, and it is known that over EASTER times, pagans do weird things to cause havoc in the lives of Christians, but we know that JESUS died and on the third day HE resurrected so that we could have everlasting life.

  • Marius Van Dyk
    Marius Van Dyk
    April 7, 2015 at 6:23 am

    Dit lyk soos ‘n “mini me” van Żuma. Lol

  • Allison Strauli
    Allison Strauli
    April 7, 2015 at 7:13 am

    Its invasion of little zumass..

  • Sarah Daly
    Sarah Daly
    April 7, 2015 at 7:39 am

    Michael Fitzgerald

  • Janice Pearson Gillett
    Janice Pearson Gillett
    April 7, 2015 at 7:39 am

    Van Riebeeck arrived on 6 April 1652, wonder if we should blame him!

  • Tatum Khoury
    Tatum Khoury
    April 7, 2015 at 7:44 am

    U0001f602 very suspicious Johan Ackerman 😉

  • Samantha Cameron-Harris
    Samantha Cameron-Harris
    April 7, 2015 at 8:01 am

    tokilosh

  • Melissa Schoeman
    Melissa Schoeman
    April 7, 2015 at 8:04 am

    Jan van Riebeeck arrived here 6th April 1652. He might have sneaked back to erect the statue. Lol

  • Riaz Moolla
    Riaz Moolla
    April 7, 2015 at 8:06 am

    That one is die tokolos manskap.

  • Leon Zeelie
    Leon Zeelie
    April 7, 2015 at 8:16 am

    All look the same…lol

  • David Nurick
    David Nurick
    April 7, 2015 at 8:18 am

    hahaha – saw the “zuma” statue on lions head this morning.. he is missing a head!

  • Karen Shell Bratton
    Karen Shell Bratton
    April 7, 2015 at 8:22 am

    Oh my…cool!

  • Roxanne Sinclair
    Roxanne Sinclair
    April 7, 2015 at 8:40 am

    wheres the shower to go with it? 🙂 haha

  • Doug Webber
    Doug Webber
    April 7, 2015 at 8:41 am

    Jan Van Riebeek wat maak jy nou weer!!!

  • Dominique Wilson
    Dominique Wilson
    April 7, 2015 at 8:52 am

    Gordon Phillips

  • Mel Fraser
    Mel Fraser
    April 7, 2015 at 8:57 am

    It’s probably gone by now

  • Jordan Garth Mcwilliams
    Jordan Garth Mcwilliams
    April 7, 2015 at 8:59 am

    Eish what is that how a shower

  • Conrad Heydenrych
    Conrad Heydenrych
    April 7, 2015 at 9:06 am

    Let’s vandalize and protest for its removal

  • Uvania Naidoo
    Uvania Naidoo
    April 7, 2015 at 9:06 am

    Stephanie Nicole Venter Tiffany Kagure Mugo Saif Islam

  • Maryann Balanco
    Maryann Balanco
    April 7, 2015 at 9:19 am

    I WILL TAKE IT DOWN.

  • Sebastian Stroud
    Sebastian Stroud
    April 7, 2015 at 9:19 am

    There’ll be protests to have it removed.

  • Nicole Wannenburg
    Nicole Wannenburg
    April 7, 2015 at 9:24 am

    Ahhh LOVE THIS COUNTRY!What a joke!

  • Callie van der Linde
    Callie van der Linde
    April 7, 2015 at 9:30 am

    Verkoop vir skroot

  • Ruben Simpson
    Ruben Simpson
    April 7, 2015 at 9:32 am

    Were you in Capetown Rishina? And you did’nt even think of visiting me? Shame on you !!lol

  • Carolyn Ann Dewrance
    Carolyn Ann Dewrance
    April 7, 2015 at 9:49 am

    Stunning piece of art work, To honour the artist that made it.

  • Craig Hack
    Craig Hack
    April 7, 2015 at 10:36 am

    It’s the Tokolosh !! U0001f602

  • Kerryn Key
    Kerryn Key
    April 7, 2015 at 10:39 am

    Fivebop Enchies

  • Jullian Ricardo Bosman
    Jullian Ricardo Bosman
    April 7, 2015 at 10:49 am

    Lol

  • Cj Macthomas
    Cj Macthomas
    April 7, 2015 at 11:04 am

    Lol Luks like zuma….aaaa south africa…u r truly unique

  • Mark Peters
    Mark Peters
    April 7, 2015 at 11:06 am

    bloody aliens

  • Natheer Ramjan
    Natheer Ramjan
    April 7, 2015 at 11:09 am

    If white statues can be painted green non whites can be painted bronze

  • Ashley Harvey
    Ashley Harvey
    April 7, 2015 at 11:12 am

    apparently its already been destroyed. . And jz was holding a butplug to symbolize how he screwed the country

  • Carmen van Dyk
    Carmen van Dyk
    April 7, 2015 at 11:22 am

    Maybe the EFF should go cover up all the revealing parts with their green spray paint to give the little man a bit of dignity…

  • Upperhall Retreat
    Upperhall Retreat
    April 7, 2015 at 12:06 pm

    whoever mounted it up there made sure it will be difficult for the cable, copper and bronze theft to find it. However I’ll take the axe as in the days of Elijah with me to destroy every demonic symbols that does not fit in with God’s natural landscape

  • Letšoba Selahle
    Letšoba Selahle
    April 7, 2015 at 12:42 pm

    Bohlale Selahle bona fela!!! *clasp once*

  • Elbie Strauss Dorman
    Elbie Strauss Dorman
    April 7, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    Hahaha

  • Elbie Strauss Dorman
    Elbie Strauss Dorman
    April 7, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Why stoop down to barbaric level.

  • Elbie Strauss Dorman
    Elbie Strauss Dorman
    April 7, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    Really?! It’s made by some primative being.

  • Elbie Strauss Dorman
    Elbie Strauss Dorman
    April 7, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    Tokks lossi is the god that Africa fear.

  • Avril Carollisson
    Avril Carollisson
    April 7, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Is that a Easter BunnyU0001f633U0001f633U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602

  • Elbie Strauss Dorman
    Elbie Strauss Dorman
    April 7, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    Can’t do anything right..

  • Michael Meade
    Michael Meade
    April 7, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    Well then U should start with some of the church buildings and religious statues cause they don’t fit in either do they U fool.

  • Shareen Cader
    Shareen Cader
    April 7, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    Ja kop Zoo Mal

  • Fouzie Cassiem
    Fouzie Cassiem
    April 7, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    Hulle moes die voels kans gegee het om hom te bemors!

  • Rose Ngwai
    Rose Ngwai
    April 7, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    Martha M Asiimwe Lea Postel Sinead Christine Maritz LOL why didn’t we see this? :””D

  • Eddie Nogwaxa
    Eddie Nogwaxa
    April 7, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    Those who make ths deserve something Zuma is nt a joke

  • Mark Gillett
    Mark Gillett
    April 7, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    The ghost of Rhodes?

  • Martha M Asiimwe
    Martha M Asiimwe
    April 7, 2015 at 2:27 pm

    U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602 it wasn’t there hey!

  • Zuko Markmallo Somhlahlo
    Zuko Markmallo Somhlahlo
    April 7, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    It’s Jan van riebeeck grandson (coloured)…

  • LukAsh Lucas
    LukAsh Lucas
    April 7, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    I saw this little man yesterday 🙂

  • Athi Maq
    Athi Maq
    April 7, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    Thandi Maqubela

  • Sinead Christine Maritz
    Sinead Christine Maritz
    April 7, 2015 at 3:35 pm

    Nope i agree with Martha M Asiimwe hehehe definitely wasnt there U0001f648

  • Joseph Burns
    Joseph Burns
    April 7, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    Se hle Charlene ds Joseph syne ek jare trug da vigeet…LOL

  • Randomm Guy
    Randomm Guy
    April 7, 2015 at 4:13 pm

    Hahahahahahahahahah yeses hahahahahahahahahaha
    Who wants to leave this country when you can laugh the whole day at some stooges

  • Randomm Guy
    Randomm Guy
    April 7, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    Hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha
    That’s the best joke for this year.
    That statue made my day

  • Nico Van Schalkwyk
    Nico Van Schalkwyk
    April 7, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    So n koddige klein stront!

  • Nick Armstrong
    Nick Armstrong
    April 7, 2015 at 4:49 pm

    Hahahahahahaha! 🙂

  • Nolufefe Lujabe
    Nolufefe Lujabe
    April 7, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    Q

  • Tlotlo Lobelo
    Tlotlo Lobelo
    April 7, 2015 at 5:02 pm

    Here we go again, white being disrespectful to others and acting all surprised when they are called out.

  • Carolyn Ann Dewrance
    Carolyn Ann Dewrance
    April 7, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    Not being disrespectful at all I said it was a stunning piece of art work. a credit to the artist whoever it may be. Cant you read English.

  • Amanda Matutu
    Amanda Matutu
    April 7, 2015 at 5:36 pm

    I was there on Saturday, didn’t see it! Bummer 🙁

  • Mogamat Nordien
    Mogamat Nordien
    April 7, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    Looks like it’s a free for all, wonder what would happen if I erected a house for myself

  • Pia Praschma Mitri
    Pia Praschma Mitri
    April 7, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    Everyone stop being so rude about the statue of my husband. He posed for this for 4 hours at least and its a good likeness. See that 6 pack!!!

  • Amanda Njengele
    Amanda Njengele
    April 7, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    Looks like I missed oout

  • Pia Praschma Mitri
    Pia Praschma Mitri
    April 7, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    Im gonna make one out of paper mâché. A pose with Zuma and my dog on Lions Head. He’s a Boston so he’s very friendly and not tribalist at all.

  • Tasneem Wanza
    Tasneem Wanza
    April 7, 2015 at 6:52 pm

    Abdul Hakeem Khalfé I would really love to go.and see this lol

  • Leor Kans
    Leor Kans
    April 7, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    Martha M Asiimwe I was just about to ask you U0001f602U0001f602

  • Abdul Hakeem Khalfé
    Abdul Hakeem Khalfé
    April 7, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    lol yes!!!!!!hahaha

  • Martha M Asiimwe
    Martha M Asiimwe
    April 7, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    Bruh, I didn’t see it hey. It wasn’t there U0001f602U0001f602

  • Pauline Garrett
    Pauline Garrett
    April 7, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    Statues, with or without poo – so boring already……zzzzzzzzzzzzz….sorry, I dozed off….

  • Lance Fisher
    Lance Fisher
    April 7, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    …omw…

  • Desiree van Rooijen
    Desiree van Rooijen
    April 7, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    I think this is very funny,nice to be able to have a free spirit and a mind of your own.

  • Lorraine Burt
    Lorraine Burt
    April 7, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    looks evil

  • Jacques Kruger
    Jacques Kruger
    April 7, 2015 at 9:11 pm

    Hehehehe…..n zuma kafferkie!!!!…..lol

  • Lizzie Theart
    Lizzie Theart
    April 7, 2015 at 10:22 pm

    The Zuma statue

  • Patricia Hamman
    Patricia Hamman
    April 8, 2015 at 1:34 am

    oh no its a Zuma doll

  • Patricia Hamman
    Patricia Hamman
    April 8, 2015 at 1:34 am

    kill it before it grows bigger

  • Foxys Staffis N Pitts
    Foxys Staffis N Pitts
    April 8, 2015 at 2:27 am

    So it broke already??

  • Gustav Dreyer
    Gustav Dreyer
    April 8, 2015 at 4:15 am

    Kick it down and over the side.

  • Ntsiki Sigege
    Ntsiki Sigege
    April 8, 2015 at 6:05 am

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Jacqueline Arderne
    Jacqueline Arderne
    April 8, 2015 at 7:49 am

    If it’s bronze, somebody is gonna steal it. And if the shoe fits, wear it.

  • Mana Jwara
    Mana Jwara
    April 8, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    Naze nabahle girlssssssssss

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