Why I Grieve for the UCT African Studies Library
Last week’s fire in Cape Town left MPHUTHUMI NTABENI in sorrow over what has been lost. Here the author of...
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Be the Miracle You’re Praying For
Like every avid reader of The Southern Cross, the news that the weekly newspaper version would be discontinued gave me...
How Naive, Mr Justice!
It is unfortunate when great men reveal too many secrets about themselves until they dissolve what maintains of their prestige....
Basic Income Grant has Catholic Backing
I hear everyone say, with much hope, that the Covid-19 virus will change how the world operates. When I hear...
Open Eyes To Moral Error Within The Church?
Early last year the Irish-American Catholic novelist Alice McDermott wrote a controversial opinion column in The New York Times about...
In Advent, Have Hope for South Africa
This year will probably go down as one of the hardest in our national psyche. Its memory will be dominated...
The Gospel Evangelises
I write this late in the evening on the feast of St Jerome. I’m a little exhausted, having just arrived...
As I Approach The Thumb Stage Of Life
Nothing exposes us to the vulnerability of life, and the inevitability of our own mortality, like the death of a...
Are there Limits to Freedom of Speech?
It had been long time coming. I finally gathered enough strength to leave our local community’s social media page. Not...
