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South African cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, known as Zapiro, poses for a photo in his studio in Cape Town on April 4, 2024. South Africa's most famous cartoonist, Zapiro, says the upcoming elections brought him an unexpected gift: the surprise comeback of his favourite subject, former president Jacob Zuma. The caricaturist has depicted the 82-year-old politician with a shower head poking out of his skull for almost two decades and has no intention of stopping. Zapiro came up with the shower gibe in 2006 after Zuma infamously told a rape trial he took a shower after having unprotected sex a HIV-positive woman to avoid contracting the virus. The depiction is known to irritate the graft-accused former leader who has sued Zapiro several times with little success. (Photo by WIKUS DE WET / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo by WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images)