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Pimples

Pimples: Follow the yellow Brics road
Videos
/ 26 March 2013

Pimples: Follow the yellow Brics road

Some might say President Zuma is no stranger to the land of make-believe. Here he finds himself in curious company. But can he keep up?

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Winnie’s in the 18 area
Videos
/ 20 March 2013

Pimples: Winnie’s in the 18 area

eShibobo: that deft manoeuvre where you embarrass your opponent with trickery and sheer skill. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela knows how to stay on the winning team.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: (Com)Mission Impossible
Videos
/ 13 March 2013

Pimples: (Com)Mission Impossible

Agent Zuma will let nothing stand in his way, as he tracks down the country’s most talked-about item. But the clock is ticking.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Dude, where’s our moral compass?
Videos
/ 6 March 2013

Pimples: Dude, where’s our moral compass?

The Pimples, staunch Catholics that they are, go to the Vatican to witness the election of a new Pope. To hymns of praise, a strange figure appears.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Oscar Pistorius’s lonely race
Videos
/ 27 February 2013

Pimples: Oscar Pistorius’s lonely race

The Pimples are some of Oscar Pistorius’s biggest fans. But fame and fortune can disappear faster than he can run.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Zuma, Ramphele and the armed struggle
Videos
/ 20 February 2013

Pimples: Zuma, Ramphele and the armed struggle

Mamphela Ramphele might have bitten off more than she can chew because we all know JZ has many tricks up his sleeve.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: No man is an island, Kgalema
Videos
/ 13 February 2013

Pimples: No man is an island, Kgalema

Mangaung is a distant memory and the heyday of being Zuma’s play thing are gone forever. Enjoy your holiday but don’t forget to write. Life’s a beach, hey KG?

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Come dine with the Guptas
Videos
/ 6 February 2013

Pimples: Come dine with the Guptas

DA leader Helen Zille discovers there’s always room at the trough when you’re a guest of the Guptas. But what is that on the menu, Helen?

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Zuma’s political foosball
Videos
/ 30 January 2013

Pimples: Zuma’s political foosball

Public protector Thuli Madonsela hasn’t mastered the foosball of political corruption as she squares off against President Jacob Zuma.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Fs and Bs – you ANC nothin’ yet
Videos
/ 23 January 2013

Pimples: Fs and Bs – you ANC nothin’ yet

Following the furore over the FNB adverts, the Pimples find themselves stalked by a sinister figure making "treasonous" videos.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Zuma gets a make-over
Videos
/ 16 January 2013

Pimples: Zuma gets a make-over

The Pimples find out that there’s nothing like a good make-over to get rid of that post-Mangaung debris. Who better to do it than Golden Boy Cyril?

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Cabinet Report: From A to hara-kiri
Videos
/ 9 January 2013

Cabinet Report: From A to hara-kiri

It’s the report card you haven’t seen. The Pimples reveal the true worth of some our ministers.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: The Emperor’s new SABC
Videos
/ 12 December 2012

Pimples: The Emperor’s new SABC

The Pimples take a trip to the faulty towers of the SABC where a desperate JZ is crying out for attention. Ag shame!

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Gaga vs The Free Press
Videos
/ 5 December 2012

Pimples: Gaga vs The Free Press

Lady Gaga’s visit to the Pimples children is cut short after an invasion by the paparazzi.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Nonhle Thema – fast food fantasy
Videos
/ 28 November 2012

Pimples: Nonhle Thema – fast food fantasy

The Pimples ponder the awful inevitability of sex in advertising after Nonhle Thema meets the Mando’s cock.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: It’s my party, I’ll do what I want to
Videos
/ 21 November 2012

Pimples: It’s my party, I’ll do what I want to

‘Tis the season of giving and the Pimples follow the newly paved road to Zuma’s Nkandla housewarming party. Blade was not amused. Caution: Graphic content.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Randela’s long walk
Videos
/ 14 November 2012

Pimples: Randela’s long walk

Do you know how far your Randela goes? Join the celebrated bank note as it journeys through the hands of ordinary, and not so ordinary, South Africans.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Compound interest
Videos
/ 7 November 2012

Pimples: Compound interest

Helen Zille goes Nkandla bashing in the KZN. She’ll stop at nothing – except a police-sponsored ANC roadblock – but can she handle the truth that lurks inside?

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Food for thought
Videos
/ 31 October 2012

Pimples: Food for thought

As the scandal around the Limpopo feeding scheme taints Julius Malema’s pals, it seems Juju may have bitten off more than he can chew.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Motlanthe in the area
Videos
/ 24 October 2012

Motlanthe in the area

Pimples imagines ANC presidential hopeful Kgalema Motlanthe using his soccer skills at a party meeting following his performance in a recent friendly.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Welcome to ANC Inc.
Videos
/ 17 October 2012

Pimples: Welcome to ANC Inc.

As the scandal around President Zuma’s Nkandla homestead grows, the Pimples take a road trip to find out what on earth Msholozi is up to there.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: From toys to toyi toying
Videos
/ 10 October 2012

Pimples: From toys to toyi toying

The Pimples kids get their toys thrown out of the cot by truckers taking part in the transport strike.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: A textbook case
Videos
/ 3 October 2012

Pimples: A textbook case

The Pimples kids react with disbelief to news of Jacob Zuma’s new role on a UN education panel while his own education department is crushed by broken promises.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Taxman is always on point, Juju
Videos
/ 26 September 2012

Pimples: Taxman is always on point, Juju

History has taught powerful men that you can screw people over, but just pay your taxes. Pity Julius Malema wasn’t paying attention.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: The joke’s on Juju
Videos
/ 19 September 2012

Pimples: The joke’s on Juju

In the land of playground politics, Julius Malema can do no right. He’s on the run in more ways than one, and the Pimples couldn’t care less.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: The Zuma Zuma game show
Videos
/ 12 September 2012

Pimples: The Zuma Zuma game show

In a very real sense, we are all pro-Zuma. And by real, we mean unreal and depressing. Watch the Pimples kids watch a political game show.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Spear us your heritage
Videos
/ 5 September 2012

Pimples: Spear us your heritage

It’s that time of year when we remember our heritage and celebrate our cultural diversity. For the Pimples, it’s about letting it all hang out. Watch the video.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Immoral Kombat
Videos
/ 29 August 2012

Pimples: Immoral Kombat

The battle for the immoral high ground is a free-for-all in SA, but when it comes a showdown between The Spear and Juju, we’re all losers. FINISH HIM!

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: It’s not funny anymore
Videos
/ 22 August 2012

Pimples: It’s not funny anymore

The Lonmin tragedy has touched even the Pimples. While the politicians talk and the miners mourn, there are greater consequences to what happened in Marikana.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
The Pimples go to Zumaville
Videos
/ 15 August 2012

The Pimples go to Zumaville

Join us on a tour of Zumaville, President Zuma’s new crib. We’re super impressed by JZ’s taste in ablution facilities and can’t help but shower him with praise.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: We can all dream
Videos
/ 7 August 2012

Pimples: We can all dream

Sometimes, you have to look up from your textbooks and dream a little. After all, it’s not winning or losing that counts, it’s pretending you’re taking part.

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
Pimples: Now what?
Videos
/ 1 August 2012

Pimples: Now what?

As all of Jacob Zuma’s ex-friends, associates and colleagues get booted, fired or imprisoned, he’s left wondering ‘now what’?

By Staff Reporter and Pimples
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