The language of silence
The past year was, for me, a melancholic affair. I have a melancholy spirit, so I guess you can say...
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
The surprising silence of Christmas
I have never really been a fan of Christmas, but there is one year in particular that sends me down...
The pin is coming out of the grenade
Recently I attended a round-table discussion hosted by the Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office. It was titled, “Parliament: Degraded or Re-invigorated?”.
The Sigh of the Oppressed Creature
In all the things I’ve heard about the tragedy of the Nigerian Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, I’ve...
Cut the wealth gap
Pope Benedict XVI, in his encyclical Caritas in Veritate, says that political action is needed to ensure that wealth is...
How can we fix SA’s economy?
On August 7, I listened with great interest when Jeff Radebe , the minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring...
It’s Church teaching: Pay workers justly
In South Africa, the practicalities of the just wage are currently being severely tested with numerous workers’ strikes, most of...
Liberalism is not good for SA
Since the bankruptcy of state socialism, liberalism and social democracy — respectively the products of the bourgeois emancipation movements and...
Our ‘doing God’ election
Alastair Campbell, a senior adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, made famous the term “We don’t do God”...
