By Mphuthumi Ntabeni For much of the past decade, South Africans have been caught between despair and déjà vu. Power cuts darkened homes and factories, freight trains rusted on their rails, and the
South Africa’s stand-off with Starlink is more than a licensing dispute. It belongs to a far larger global story of the growing power of multinational tech giants, the deepening concentration of wealth,
Introduction After experiences of systemic oppression of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and apartheid this is a perennial question for Africa: What is Africa to the world? It might seem straightforward. Worse still, it is
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
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.
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