Ntabeni – The Southern Cross

Novelist with a Catholic Vision

Catholic writer Mphuthumi Ntabeni is the author of two acclaimed novels. He talked to Daluxolo Moloantoa about his writing, influences and […]

Last week’s fire in Cape Town left MPHUTHUMI NTABENI in sorrow over what has been lost. Here the author of

By Mphuthumi Ntabeni / September 8, 2020

Like every avid reader of The Southern Cross, the news that the weekly newspaper version would be discontinued gave me

It is unfortunate when great men reveal too many secrets about themselves until they dissolve what maintains of their prestige.

I hear everyone say, with much hope, that the Covid-19 virus will change how the world operates. When I hear

Early last year the Irish-American Catholic novelist Alice McDermott wrote a controversial opinion column in The New York Times about

By Mphuthumi Ntabeni / December 16, 2019

This year will probably go down as one of the hardest in our national psyche. Its memory will be dominated

By Admin / December 9, 2019

A Southern Cross columnist has won a prestigious literary prize awarded by the University of Johannesburg for South African writing

I write this late in the evening on the feast of St Jerome. I’m a little exhausted, having just arrived