A City Still Divided by Spatial Apartheid
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni Of all the Cape Town City mayors I have lived under, I have a soft spot for Geordin Hill-Lewis. That is why I was so deeply disappointed when, in a
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Andrew O’Hagan, Caledonian Road: A London Novel, in a Time of Discontents
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni | Literature Those who know the Caledonian Road, or Cally to it residents and familiar, know that it is a major road in the affluent parts of London Borough of Islington.
The Long Pursuit of Consciousness Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Chasing Homer
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
Cancelling Freedom of Speech
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
South Africa’s Surname Ruling: Between Equality and Ancestry
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
The Rigging of the Rand
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