So you draw a cartoon with a road that has got a pothole.
Number one, you decide what size the pothole should be...
...and it must be significant enough to be noticed.
You could show a guy with a fishing rod...
...that is going into the pothole with a bit of water in it.
You could draw the pothole with a plant sticking out of it,..
...and a car coming in the other direction.
You could draw the pothole so big that you ...
...could just about see a whole bus just sticking out.
That is a political statement - of a pothole.
So you try to find politics in all sorts of things, in everyday things.
I remember the first time I did a cartoon of the President...
...was in 1992.
What had happened was that the students were striking.
And one of the placards said: "Down with Mugabe!".
You know just that, those three words, in 1992 could make somebody disappear.
I said to myself, why don't I draw the guy himself?
I drew these students rioting, they are saying: "Down with Mugabe!".
So who is the problem, is it the students or the president?
It's up to you to decide.
You see, I think ambiguity is a good way of not only protecting myself...
...but a way of portraying an issue in different ways at the same time.
You let ambiguity come into the picture so that people at first are confused...
...and then when they read through,..
...when they read between the lines then they can understand it, in whatever way they want.
The main point of a cartoon is to be the link between the politician and the masses.
You get away with it because you are not naming any names,..
...but the people know who you are pointing at.
They can't risk their lives laughing at a politician, but they can laugh at the cartoons.
And once that happens the politicians are not going to be happy.
It's very difficult to understand when you attract such kind of reaction.
How does a cartoon manage to make people angry?
Why are they angry? What are they trying to hide?
Whenever I want to make a statement I have to draw that statement.
It's very difficult to write and make a statement through writing.
I don't make that kind of impact, I have to draw.
It's almost like medication that you have to take every day.
You can't stop it, you know.
So it's something that I just can't get out of my system.
If an idea comes at 3 am I have to start drawing.
Because it's too good to miss.
I never realised I could end up getting obsessed with cartoons.
There is no end to it. And you say to yourself: what have I brought myself into?
Because my idea was just to make an impact to be felt.
Some kind of impact that would change something.
I have been a witness to the death of the media in this country.
This new media law will make it even more difficult for a journalist to operate.
And we can't just sit and look on.
You have to make some kind of noise.
People have no idea how frightening it is because if it continues,..
...once the media dies, our voice is going to die.
We are going to end up with newsletters from the government as our only pieces of information.
Ministry of information bulletins, issued free of charge, in the streets.
No more newspapers. Nothing like that.
That era is coming.
And we have to make noise to stop it.
We have our spaces which we need to protect at all costs.