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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - The South African publisher of "Tintin in the Congo" said it would not release an Afrikaans translation of the comic following complaints of racism, local media reported Saturday.
Publisher Human & Rousseau said it had canceled its Afrikaans version of the book in the popular Belgian series because it portrayed Africans in an offensive way, according to SABC radio.
"We felt that it depicted indigenous African people in an unflattering ... stereotypical fashion," said spokesman Carina Diedericks-Hugo was quoted as saying on the SABC news Web site. "We felt that we have a particular situation in South Africa and that depiction of indigenous people, we can't agree with that."
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