Mphuthumi Ntabeni

Mphuthumi Ntabeni

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.

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The Cost of Living

To the sea, with our undisclosed hurt Those who’ve read the South African born Deborah Levy's memoir, Things I Don't Want to Know will remember it hailed as

Humour In The Era Of Pandemics

About a third of the way into the narrative Daniel Defoe’s book, A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722, its narrator H. F., a saddler in London of 1665 says:

The Lenten Diary: Day Two

The Twins of Life: Love & Pain A friend (Dr Shell) reminded me yesterday that Ash Wednesday readings include these kernel of treasures into God's infinite mercy. Joel 2:13 : Rend

The Lenten Diary

DAY 1: ASH WEDNSDAY Ash Wednesday. Another start to the eternal year of the Church's cycle. For mortals, time and years flow by, creases and bitterness spread over, the bile rises

The Eschatological Imagination

For whatever reason, I've been struggling with my concentration levels this year. A friend who knows I am Dostoevsky's fan brought me this when she recently travelled to Cape