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 faith. Earlier in the year, The Southern...
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by Daluxolo Moloantoa · Published November 15, 2021
Catholic writer Mphuthumi Ntabeni is the author of two acclaimed novels. He talked to Daluxolo Moloantoa about his writing, influences and faith. Earlier in the year, The Southern...
Last week’s fire in Cape Town left MPHUTHUMI NTABENI in sorrow over what has been lost. Here the author of the landmark book The Broken River Tent...
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by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published September 8, 2020 · Last modified September 7, 2020
Like every avid reader of The Southern Cross, the news that the weekly newspaper version would be discontinued gave me a cold shock and a lump in...
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by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published July 20, 2020 · Last modified July 19, 2020
It is unfortunate when great men reveal too many secrets about themselves until they dissolve what maintains of their prestige. This is the feeling I had as...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published May 26, 2020 · Last modified May 25, 2020
I hear everyone say, with much hope, that the Covid-19 virus will change how the world operates. When I hear that, I keep quiet because I don’t...
Early last year the Irish-American Catholic novelist Alice McDermott wrote a controversial opinion column in The New York Times about what she called “the moral error of...
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by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published December 16, 2019 · Last modified December 15, 2019
This year will probably go down as one of the hardest in our national psyche. Its memory will be dominated by the dark incidents of gender-based violence,...
A Southern Cross columnist has won a prestigious literary prize awarded by the University of Johannesburg for South African writing in English. Mphuthumi Ntabeni was awarded the...
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by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published October 22, 2019 · Last modified October 21, 2019
I write this late in the evening on the feast of St Jerome. I’m a little exhausted, having just arrived from Johannesburg, after a rather hectic weekend...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published August 27, 2019 · Last modified August 23, 2019
Nothing exposes us to the vulnerability of life, and the inevitability of our own mortality, like the death of a child. It unsettles and makes us angry...
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