"...a big set of salad spoons that can represent the past and the future of South Africa, coming together to load the lettuce of harmony and the feta cheese of forgiveness onto the Boardmans crockery of democracy.
"Or something lekker arty like that." - HAYIBO
JOHANNESBURG. Oil giant Sasol says it remains committed to supporting South African artists but has urged them to create work more in line with Sasol's ethos of complete corporate subjugation of free will. The statement follows weekend revelations that the winner of this year's Sasol New Signatures art competition had upset the company's employees by showing a glimpse of a penis.
Familieportret No 2, a photograph by artist Richard Strydom, also featured a young woman baring one of her breasts. However Sasol spokesman Pieter-Willem Botha said that staff had had no problem with the breast.
"We at Sasol accept that all art is ultimately about looking at naked women," he told the media this morning.
However, he said, the penis featured in the photograph had been too much for many at Sasol's head office.
"For most of our male employees the penis represents frustration, disappointment and failure," said Botha.
"And for our female employees it pretty much means the same."
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