Mphuthumi Ntabeni is trained in built environment, reads literature, history and philosophy. He lives in Cape Town. He has written two historical novels, The Broken River Tent & The Wanderers.
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni The only book I have ever read by the winner of 2025 Nobel Prize fpin Literature, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, is Chasing Homer. Krasznahorkai is known as literature’s master of dread
The suspension of The Jimmy Kimmel Show in the United States has been greeted by some as overdue accountability and by others as the latest blow against freedom of expression. For those inclined
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni CAPE TOWN — When the Constitutional Court declared parts of the 1992 Births and Deaths Registration Act unconstitutional this September, the ruling seemed almost modest in its phrasing. Men may now
Why South Africa must take its currency cartels seriously By Mphuthumi Ntabeni When Standard Chartered signed a settlement with South Africa’s Competition Commission in November 2023, it admitted to something extraordinary, a
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni South African President Cyril Ramaphosa projects a genteel calm, a measured cadence born of his trade-union roots, boardroom prowess, and reputation as a consensus builder. Whenever he must make a
South Africa’s proposed National Dialogue is, at its core, an act of political triage. For the first time since the birth of democracy in 1994, the African National Congress lost its outright