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​Kuntha Ndimande

​Kuntha Ndimande

    The weekly pop sack: Bittersweet days buoyed by the Bey
    The weekly pop sack: Bittersweet days buoyed by the Bey
    The internet has become chockful of profiles of baby bumps, twins and doubles of everything. People are posing seated demurely on a bed of wild...
    The weekly pop sack: It’s going to be a long four years
    The weekly pop sack: It’s going to be a long four years
    OPINIONThere are no simple answers to some questions. Mostly there are no answers, in the often missed wisdom of Kanye West....
    The weekly pop sack: Paved with good intentions
    The weekly pop sack: Paved with good intentions
    OPINIONDespite trying to hang on to holiday memories and maintain a view of the world through purple-tinted sunglasses, it’s disappointingly clear that the world is in serious need of some TLC. We are in need of those famous sprinklings of magic from #SaltBae himself. The...
    The weekly pop sack: Cars crashing, legends leaving and officials swearing
    The weekly pop sack: Cars crashing, legends leaving and officials swearing
    The new year is certainly off to a wonky start and there’s not much late Happy New Year greetings can do to help. If you’re one of the 48...
    Dear 2017, forget what 2016 told you: We're alright
    Dear 2017, forget what 2016 told you: We're alright
    It was somewhere between a mercenary Kardashianesque publicity stunt featuring Rob and Blacc Chyna's InstaSpat and Kanye West making nice with...
    ​Stop right now! Go and feed the  soul you starved in 2016 ...
    ​Stop right now! Go and feed the  soul you starved in 2016 ...
    The gods of spare time have come around with the keys to your freedom. Freedom from work, schedules and deadlines. Free from that Whatsapp group...
    #CulturePop: Year of fees and woe but also bling and memes
    #CulturePop: Year of fees and woe but also bling and memes
    The education sector has had a tricky year, be it the #FeesMustFall movement or the wider project of decolonising the education system and its...
    #CulturePop: It's Dezemba – but keep the fun safe
    #CulturePop: It's Dezemba – but keep the fun safe
    It’s the first week of the last month of the year and a roundup of what happened in the past seven days is a taste of what to expect the for the...
    #CulturePop: This our year of users and abusers
    #CulturePop: This our year of users and abusers
    Can you smell that? It’s a Facebook timeline near you. Drenched in the migraine and blindness-inducing odour of Doom insecticide. Or at least it...
    #CulturePop: Who is responsible for the orange-tinged disaster that is 2016?
    #CulturePop: Who is responsible for the orange-tinged disaster that is 2016?
    Someone asked, quite bleakly, whether 2016 was directed by Quentin Tarantino. Does anyone remember the opening sequence of Natural Born...
    #CulturePop: Strangely, not fiction
    #CulturePop: Strangely, not fiction
    The art of going out with a bang — former public protector Thuli Madonsela possesses this elusive talent. The hallowed author of the 355...
    #CulturePop: Jake, Vine and the internet
    #CulturePop: Jake, Vine and the internet
    They say the internet engendered the death of the author and broke the tradition of “the lead story” but, ironically enough, it is the agenda...