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Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

The return to respectability of the honourable profession of bank robbing

By Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

Beautiful sorrow: The tail end of a new innings for South Africa and its dogged survivors

By Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

King Richards the Fourth? The Kingsmead coronation that never came

By Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

'More than victory or defeat' — A Kingsmead cricket tale without beginning or end

By Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

‘Wounded attachments’ — a centenary of Test cricket at Kingsmead and the death of an unsung maestro

By Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

Slouching towards Varanasi to be reborn — on a journey to India, I find my roots in Durban

By Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

The cruel optimism of Rama’s poser — how our mighty hopes have fallen

By Ashwin Desai

Ashwin Desai

Opinionistas

Rishi Sunak has khanucked all our smug political assumptions about ‘racist’, ‘imperialist’ Britain

By Ashwin Desai

Brij Maharaj

Opinionistas

Memorialising the 1860 Indian indentured labourers – static versus living monuments

By Brij Maharaj

Brij Maharaj

Opinionistas

Diwali and indentured Indian labour in South Africa: Light and hope transcend darkness

By Brij Maharaj

Dali Mpofu

Opinionistas

On the Indian Question in South Africa: A response to mob psychologists

By Dali Mpofu