Mahendra on Youtube!

Following in the Spitting Image tradition, and based on Zapiro characters, a team that includes the cartoonist himself, satirist Ben Trovato, Lauren Beukes of Moxyland fame, and playwright Welcome Msomi (co-executive director), is working on a tv show called Z-news (pronounced Ze News, as in The News). Here's a clip featuring the Raghunath and former president Thabo Mbeki:



The show has a lot of potential and Mbeki's voice is well imitated. The Raghunath's voice, though, is a bit clipped and staccato, and the script for his news articles is also quite flat.

The clip is from a pilot for a tv show, probably not SABC. Check the Youtube account for a clip of Mbeki doing Gaynor's "I will survive" for Idols.