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
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni | Political Review When the United States announced new trade restrictions on South African imports, tariffs it framed as retaliatory and rooted in a broader matrix of political grievance, it signalled
By Mphuthumi Ntabeni | Opinion For years, the international community has repeated the same tired refrain that the only path to peace in Palestine is through a Two-State Solution. Presidents come and go, summits
Opinion | Politics By Mphuthumi Ntabeni Not for the first time, and surely not the last, South Africa finds itself caught in the crosswinds of American foreign policy. This week’s announcement of impending
Nqandeka writes with an easy familiarity of the Xhosa cultural background showing how the ordinary language is filled with elocution from ancient wisdom. https://www.litnet.co.za/dont-upset-oomalume-a-guide-to-stepping-up-your-xhosa-by-hombakazi-mercy-nqandeka-a-review/
An intellectually bent woman records her descent into passion through a brief period when she was consumed by an affair with a married man of foreign culture to hers. Through it she discovers