The Film and Publication Board has given "The Spear" painting, which depicts President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed, a "16N" rating.
Although President Zuma could force local internet service providers to make "The Spear" disappear from their servers, it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
President Jacob Zuma tried to stop "The Spear" court case before proceedings started a week ago, but the ANC insisted on going ahead.
President Jacob Zuma says the government will defend the right of its people to express themselves in any manner, including protest action.
We can argue endlessly about "The Spear" because it inspires different emotions from people — none exclusive to either blacks or whites.
South Africa’s second-most powerful man fanned the fires of anger instead of seeking a solution, writes Rapule Tabane
The heavy-handed response to the Brett Murray’s painting raises the ominous spectre of the state silencing dissent, writes Anne McClintock
Khaya Dlanga takes issue with the ANC’s selective morality when it comes to the office of the presidency.
The Goodman Gallery and the ANC have agreed to make amends in an aim to end the furore surrounding the controversial painting.
The ANC is to withdraw its court application against a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
While meeting over "The Spear", the Film and Publications Board has astonishingly seemed to imply it is obliged to suppress political criticism.
In what turned out to be a peaceful march on the Goodman Gallery, ANC leaders celebrated how the show of support for Jacob Zuma won them the battle.
The Goodman Gallery’s lawyer says there is no point to the Film and Publication Board classifying "The Spear" since it has been defaced and removed.
Ruling party supporters have begun their march on the Goodman Gallery to protest against the controversial ‘Spear’ painting.
Part of Jan Smuts Avenue in Johannesburg will be closed from 9am until about 3pm on Tuesday for a protest march, the Johannesburg metro police say.
City Press has opted to remove "The Spear" from its website, despite the apparent failure of the ANC’s call for a boycott on the paper.
The battle against the controversial "Spear" painting moves to the streets as thousands of ANC supporters prepare to march on the Goodman Gallery.
Rory Bester believes that the violent outrage at Brett Murray’s
painting of Jacob Zuma is as unsurprising as Murray’s work itself.
I am one of those who feel that the controversial Brett Murray painting, The Spear, denigrates our president.
Owner of the Goodman Gallery, Liza Essers defends visual art’s ability to challenge and shape consciousness and to shift people’s hearts.
How far can artists go in satirising or sending up the powerful? Nickolaus Bauer reports on different value clashes over Brett Murray’s ‘The Spear’.
Sean O’Toole explores some of the portrayals of the naked black body that have elicited fierce reactions in SA’s recent past.
At the South Gauteng High Court on Thursday, President Jacob Zuma employed the reactionary mobilisation strategy that has served him so well.
No matter how concerned you may or may not be over the smearing of The Spear, you have to give some credit to Barend la Grange, writes Kevin Davie.
The application to ban artist Brett Murray’s controversial painting "The Spear" has been postponed indefinitely, the South Gauteng High Court ruled.
One of the men accused of defacing "The Spear" artwork said he did it to defuse a situation that could have turned into a race war.
Brett Murray’s artwork has brought into sharp focus the issue of black people’s representation at the hands of whites, writes Mpho Moshe Matheolane.
The ANC, though, remains resolute in its court challenge against the controversial painting, even after the artwork was irreparably defaced.
The Film and Publications Board had a late night scratching their heads over what to do about the artwork showing the president in a state of undress.
Two men held for allegedly defacing a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma in a Johannesburg gallery will be released, say police.
A giant "X" has been painted over Brett Murray’s The Spear, defacing the controversial artwork that depicts the president with his genitals exposed.
The ANC has issued a warning to the judiciary as it takes the Goodman Gallery and City Press to court over Brett Murray’s controversial artwork.