‘Most wanted’ posters in city attack the rich and the famous

the one of billionaire Glasenberg, who runs one of the world’s largest commodity trading and mining firms, the men sport prison gang tattoos, like tears, dollar signs on their chins, and suns. Zuma even has a 28s numbers gang symbol, with the words “General Salute” across his forehead.

All the men, the posters claim, are “top suspects” wanted by “The People’s Court”.

The long list of charges range from human rights violations, tax evasion, and profiting from child labour, to rape, large-scale corruption, political manoeuvring, illegal evic- tions and harassment of the poor and homeless.

Two electrical boxes on the pavement in Burg Street also bear stickers which read: “The city works for a few” and in bold “SKRIK WAKKER Up)”.

Asked to comment, Smith

(Wake said the photocopied flyers were the work of social activist group Tokolos Stencil Collec- tive. On its Facebook page, the collective’s “about” section reads: “To scare the powers that be, the tokoloshe emerges from invisibility reminding South Africans that freedom and justice remain elusive unless we fight for it.”

Smith said he used to get “annoyed” by their work, but chose now to simply ignore them because they were just “kids that act out”.

He said the group had been behind last year’s “Remember Marikana” campaign, which painted graffiti on the Madibainspired Ray-Ban sunglasses on the Sea Point Promenade.

Other “racially insensitive” and “patronising” stencils had to be removed at the entrances to Langa and outside a restaurant window in Woodstock following residents’ complaints, according to Smith.

The group had also found itself in trouble with the law when it “made threats about burning down police stations”.

The “State Security Agency also closed down the coffee and bookshop they operated from because they had committed tax fraud”, he said, claiming the group had also been “linked to some drug dealers”.

Smith then called the group cowards for never revealing the identities of its members.

“At least being faceless, nameless cowards who attack people from the comfort of anonymity gives purpose to their middle- class lives,” he said.

UNLOVED: Wanted posters of former president FW de Klerk, President Jacob Zuma, city official JP Smith and Glencor chief executive Ivan Glasenberg appeared in the city centre yesterday.