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Joe Kitchen

Koos Kombuis is a South African musician, singer, songwriter and writer who sometimes goes by the name of Joe Kitchen, André Letoit and/or André le Roux du Toit.

Latest Work

OPINIONISTA

12 November 2023

The strange story of the holographic rock star — a fable for the Age of AI

By Joe Kitchen

6 min

It’s Always Friday Somewhere in the Universe

BOOK EXTRACT

24 August 2023

It’s Always Friday Somewhere in the Universe

By Joe Kitchen

4 min

OPINIONISTA

17 March 2023

The horror of horrors: What if Ramaphosa is the new Zuma?

By Joe Kitchen

3 min

OPINIONISTA

26 February 2023

Oracles, ancient and modern — the startling consequences of pitting ChatGPT against the I Ching

By Joe Kitchen

6 min

Urban fantasy: an excerpt from Joe Kitchen’s micro-novel Twitter Dawn

NEW BOOK

12 February 2023

Urban fantasy: an excerpt from Joe Kitchen’s micro-novel Twitter Dawn

By Joe Kitchen

4 min

OPINIONISTA

17 January 2023

The inexplicable indestructible mystery of Jacob Zuma the messiah

By Joe Kitchen

5 min

OPINIONISTA

22 November 2022

South Africa is running on empty. And so, a different kind of Black Friday looms

By Joe Kitchen

4 min

OPINIONISTA

6 November 2022

To tweet, or not to tweet - the question is can the caged bird sing?

By Joe Kitchen

4 min

OPINIONISTA

12 October 2022

The post-revolutionary blues — it’s probably much more serious than we thought

By Joe Kitchen

5 min

OPINIONISTA

17 July 2022

Careful what you wish for: A National State of Emergency might usher in the death of democracy

By Joe Kitchen

4 min

OPINIONISTA

6 June 2022

If the Buffalo falls, we’re on our own – there is no leadership left in the country

By Joe Kitchen

4 min

OPINIONISTA

24 January 2022

Believe me, Helen, apartheid and those Broederbond cadres were the alternative that was too ghastly to contemplate

By Joe Kitchen

4 min

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Defend Truth

Latest Work

The strange story of the holographic rock star — a fable for the Age of AI

It’s Always Friday Somewhere in the Universe

The horror of horrors: What if Ramaphosa is the new Zuma?

Oracles, ancient and modern — the startling consequences of pitting ChatGPT against the I Ching

Urban fantasy: an excerpt from Joe Kitchen’s micro-novel Twitter Dawn

The inexplicable indestructible mystery of Jacob Zuma the messiah

South Africa is running on empty. And so, a different kind of Black Friday looms

To tweet, or not to tweet - the question is can the caged bird sing?

The post-revolutionary blues — it’s probably much more serious than we thought

Careful what you wish for: A National State of Emergency might usher in the death of democracy

If the Buffalo falls, we’re on our own – there is no leadership left in the country

Believe me, Helen, apartheid and those Broederbond cadres were the alternative that was too ghastly to contemplate