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Yunus Momoniat
Cosatu: A labouring behemoth finally reaches the crossroads
The mighty Cosatu once revolutionised the labour scene, but did its transformation into an efficient bureaucracy unwittingly lead to Marikana?
Come Dine with Me SA: Race on the menu
Come Dine with Me SA is far more than bad TV — it’s a fascinating look into the state of race relations.
The ambiguous image
If these images were not captured, our collective memories would be impoverished, restricted to middle-class everydayness.
Funky ha-ha from half a Dadaist
When I first saw that <em>Paris/Joburg</em> consisted of four wind instruments, two drummers, two vocalists and a bassist, my heart sank a little.
The end of capitalism as we know it
Forget about surviving 2010. If you believe American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, we’re in for a rough 50 years, writes Yunus Momoniat.
A heritage that shames us
The idealism of SA’s anti-apartheid struggle is in danger of dissolving in the acid of pragmatism, warns public intellectual Darshan Vigneswaran.
Pik and Che: Cuba in Africa
Yunus Momoniat talks to documentary filmmaker Jihan el-Tahri about her latest production, <i>Cuba: An African Odyssey</i>.
The reverb of Rewind
Composer Philip Miller tells Percy Zvomuya and Yunus Momoniat about the ethical consideration of making music from human tragedy.
From Marx to Gandhi
One of the most significant developments in the recent history of our species is the emergence of an ethic of reconciliation. So argues Ari Sitas, a professor of sociology at the…
Accumulating knowledge
Mcebisi Ndletyana’s book <i>African Intellectuals in 19th and Early 20th Century South Africa</i> is an attempt to present a history of the accumulation of knowledge capital…
Mahomed was an architect of the UDF
It is no accident that a meeting held to commemorate the life of Yunus Mahomed was attended by scores of luminaries from the African National Congress and the United Democratic…
The logic of cruelty
The most prolific thinkers are those who provide us with new concepts to think new realities, and Achille Mbembe is one of these. A professor of history and politics at the Wits…
Of graceful retreat
JM Coetzee’s latest protagonist is none other than JM Coetzee, in a disguise constructed to fool no one. But Coetzee is far too clever to become his own hero — the simulation…
Mouth wide open
What strange creatures we are, we yawners, a category that extends across species to include, I am told, mammals of many shapes, colours and stripes. How incomprehensible it is…
The Sufis whirl into the world of politics
Renunciation of the worldly does not spirit the mystic out of the realm of human affairs, and the fate of the Sufi obeys this iron law of reality. Even Sufis are embedded in…