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The Zingari

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54: 66: 17: 224:. Friday 2 June 1871, p.91. "Our Portrait Gallery, Number 1. Leader of the House of Assembly, namely the Senior Member for Beaufort West, John Charles Molteno MLA, on whom has devolved the privilege of taking sense of the Legislature on the most vital of questions that has been before the Colony since the granting of the Constitution to the Cape - Responsible Government." 129:" (locally elected democracy) which it accused of being "crafts and assaults of the devil" which would bring about a "great conflagration". When the movement's leader came to power in 1872, the Zingari became one of the most extreme voices of opposition against the local government, and in favour of a stronger British imperial presence in southern Africa. 75:
was founded by Charles Cowen, who was to be the newspaper's editor for the duration of its publication. The first run was beset with technical problems, and only 300 copies were printed. Cowen therefore approached the large and established printing house of
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Under Cowen's direction, Schröder also initiated a portrait gallery of the influential figures of the country at the time. Each edition featured a portrait and biography at the back, beginning in June 1871 with the leader of the House of Assembly
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The name, "Zingari", is a dialectal Italian word meaning "Gypsies", but in its sketches the paper always represented itself with the character of a medieval
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from 1870 until 1875. It was a low-brow, semi-humorous paper that never attained a wide circulation, but was notable for featuring some of the first
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in southern Africa. It was also an overtly pro-imperialist publication, appealing to the right-wing of the political spectrum of the time.
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newspaper. Solomon permitted the use of his printing house though, as a liberal MP himself, he was often the main figure attacked by the
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in southern Africa. Its first few editions were illustrated with sketches by CJM Smith and William McGill, but McGill's young student,
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took a strongly reactionary, pro-imperialist stance, in opposition to the mainstream newspapers such as the
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Cartoon attacking Mr John Quin, one of the many local politician who converted to the movement for
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It was one of the few publications which opposed the movement for "
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Penpricks: The Drawing of South Africa's Political Battlelines
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What's So Funny?: Under the Skin of South African Cartooning
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was notable for featuring some of the earliest examples of
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The Schröder Art Memento (1893) - Leo Weinthal (editor)
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Saul Solomon
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The South African Commercial Advertiser
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Defunct newspapers published in South Africa
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