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.
So this is what is popped up on Lion’s Head. Cc @helenzille pic.twitter.com/YPgBd7SKlP
— Darlin’ Lama (@makheswa) April 6, 2015
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.
Update: The statue. Happy Monday, winners. pic.twitter.com/XkNPobOrea
— Darlin’ Lama (@makheswa) April 6, 2015
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.
Julies malema ?
Lol
Lol ask the EFF..
Jan van Riebeeck he gets the blame for everything!!! Lol
sell it by the scrapyard
Just wait until someone throws poo on it…>.
Tokolosh???
Smash it broken proberly some evil thing
did you send him Allen En Linda Samuel??to sort evil doers?/
must be maria and jan van riebeecks baby…..
Connie Matzdorff
Looks quite a bit like Zuma!
Jacubzooma
Lol
Ja i think its jan van riebeeck…..poor oll Jan
Ye its ugly!
AnGo ZuMa Lo ?
If it’s bronze – it’s not gonna survive much longer up there …I give it four days before it gets “mugged “U0001f604
Miniture Zuma
Ou STLORTKOP……..steek die etter brand
If you want it gone throw poo at it
Gross!
Looks like chocolate to me
Gotta go n see it…lol
Genetically modified Easter Bunny
Must be from Mars, or n klein Zuma! Don’t tellwe have another idiot in the country!!!
Johan Ackerman Hannah Alexandra Randera
When was this wasnt yesterday
Throw poo at it.
Ha Ha HA
Offspring of julzuma.. Hehehe wat @ pity itz bin removed already.. Can u imagine what the genetics wuld hav bin???
It needs a shower head to wash off the extrementU0001f622
Looks like Julius Malema’s wax statue..lol..lmk
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
Looks demonic
et phone home from Lions head!
Lol noooooo… no nothing about it. Off with the head!
Sis
Interesting never been ever that there !
Don’t tell me it will start a fire !!!
Brilliant! All I know is that it was not there on Friday morning!
Even better! Someone finally broke zoomie! 😀
This is scary and very disturbing
Maud Thuysbaert
The tokka lossie Xhosa belief
Dis Zuma!!!!!!!!!
That’s not even on the top
its our president JZ!!!!
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!!
Stunning piece of art work, send it to an art gallery, and name it after Zuma
Dis Malema se toor dokkie
Spraypaint it green!!
Our country citizens are SICK
weird..
isn’t that ZUMA? LMAO
Hahahahahaha thought it was a chocolate statue showing good spirit for Easter lmao!!!
Rory Petzer
#newsbyrory is already onto it! Rory Petzer: Comedian / Entertainer
Sell it to a scrap dealer, must be a good few kilo’s of bronze there.
Tokka lossie is Afrikaans Forie
Juan Farrell
Some youngsters leaned against it this morning it fell and broke, so that’s the end of it
Gate seven where would thst orion
Tooo soooon people toooo sooon
Why? if I may ask.
Looks like jacob zuma and his SPEAR …
Yeeeer basile yhaz
Wtf?
Send the EFF to deal with it . . .
#rhodeshasrisen
Maybe the students at UCT know something about it?
May be he the one robbing people on mountains
Muhammad Ali
Zuma se neef eugene tereblanch
Wtf is that
Black mini me
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…
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.
Dit lyk soos ‘n “mini me” van Żuma. Lol
Its invasion of little zumass..
Michael Fitzgerald
Van Riebeeck arrived on 6 April 1652, wonder if we should blame him!
U0001f602 very suspicious Johan Ackerman 😉
tokilosh
Jan van Riebeeck arrived here 6th April 1652. He might have sneaked back to erect the statue. Lol
That one is die tokolos manskap.
All look the same…lol
hahaha – saw the “zuma” statue on lions head this morning.. he is missing a head!
Oh my…cool!
wheres the shower to go with it? 🙂 haha
Jan Van Riebeek wat maak jy nou weer!!!
Gordon Phillips
It’s probably gone by now
Eish what is that how a shower
Let’s vandalize and protest for its removal
Stephanie Nicole Venter Tiffany Kagure Mugo Saif Islam
I WILL TAKE IT DOWN.
There’ll be protests to have it removed.
Ahhh LOVE THIS COUNTRY!What a joke!
Verkoop vir skroot
Were you in Capetown Rishina? And you did’nt even think of visiting me? Shame on you !!lol
Stunning piece of art work, To honour the artist that made it.
It’s the Tokolosh !! U0001f602
Fivebop Enchies
Lol
Lol Luks like zuma….aaaa south africa…u r truly unique
bloody aliens
If white statues can be painted green non whites can be painted bronze
apparently its already been destroyed. . And jz was holding a butplug to symbolize how he screwed the country
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…
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
Bohlale Selahle bona fela!!! *clasp once*
Hahaha
Why stoop down to barbaric level.
Really?! It’s made by some primative being.
Tokks lossi is the god that Africa fear.
Is that a Easter BunnyU0001f633U0001f633U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602
Can’t do anything right..
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.
Ja kop Zoo Mal
Hulle moes die voels kans gegee het om hom te bemors!
Martha M Asiimwe Lea Postel Sinead Christine Maritz LOL why didn’t we see this? :””D
Those who make ths deserve something Zuma is nt a joke
The ghost of Rhodes?
U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602 it wasn’t there hey!
It’s Jan van riebeeck grandson (coloured)…
I saw this little man yesterday 🙂
Thandi Maqubela
Nope i agree with Martha M Asiimwe hehehe definitely wasnt there U0001f648
Se hle Charlene ds Joseph syne ek jare trug da vigeet…LOL
Hahahahahahahahahah yeses hahahahahahahahahaha
Who wants to leave this country when you can laugh the whole day at some stooges
Hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha
That’s the best joke for this year.
That statue made my day
So n koddige klein stront!
Hahahahahahaha! 🙂
Q
Here we go again, white being disrespectful to others and acting all surprised when they are called out.
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.
I was there on Saturday, didn’t see it! Bummer 🙁
Looks like it’s a free for all, wonder what would happen if I erected a house for myself
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!!!
Looks like I missed oout
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.
Abdul Hakeem Khalfé I would really love to go.and see this lol
Martha M Asiimwe I was just about to ask you U0001f602U0001f602
lol yes!!!!!!hahaha
Bruh, I didn’t see it hey. It wasn’t there U0001f602U0001f602
Statues, with or without poo – so boring already……zzzzzzzzzzzzz….sorry, I dozed off….
…omw…
I think this is very funny,nice to be able to have a free spirit and a mind of your own.
looks evil
Hehehehe…..n zuma kafferkie!!!!…..lol
The Zuma statue
oh no its a Zuma doll
kill it before it grows bigger
So it broke already??
Kick it down and over the side.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
If it’s bronze, somebody is gonna steal it. And if the shoe fits, wear it.
Naze nabahle girlssssssssss