Yunus Carrim is a South African politician who served as the
Minister of Communications from 2013–2014. Carrim is a self-proclaimed
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
and serves on the
South African Communist Party
The South African Communist Party (SACP) is a communist party in South Africa. It was founded in 1921 as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), tactically dissolved itself in 1950 in the face of being declared illegal by the governing Na ...
Central Committee and is a
Politburo
A politburo () or political bureau is the executive committee for communist parties. It is present in most former and existing communist states.
Names
The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian ''Politbyuro'' (), itself a contraction ...
member.
Currently, Honorable Carrim is also a board member of
.
References
Living people
South African politicians of Indian descent
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Communications ministers of South Africa
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the National Assembly of South Africa
Members of the National Council of Provinces
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