Christian Living / History / Ntabeni
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published August 26, 2017 · Last modified August 24, 2017
My father’s death, after almost a lifetime of absence, seems to close the yawning chasm between us. I feel him closer in death than when he was alive. The seed of an “inclination to look back on history” was planted the day I heard he had died.
Ethics & Human Dignity / Gospel of Matthew / Ntabeni / Poverty & Social Justice / Scripture
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published July 4, 2017 · Last modified June 30, 2017
Do I see God in the poor as Christ instructed me? Matthew 25:31: All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate the people as a shepherd separates the sheep from...
Education / Ntabeni / Religious Freedom
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published May 30, 2017 · Last modified May 29, 2017
The judicial sphere of government seems to be the only one our people really trust. The Constitutional Court’s judgment on the upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s private residence at Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, cemented the decline...
To pull herself out of the hole which she had dug with her recent colonialism tweet, Western Cape premier Helen Zille quoted Nelson Mandela: “I was reminded of what President Nelson Mandela had said...
Christian Living / Ntabeni / Prayer
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published April 27, 2017 · Last modified April 24, 2017
I often feel frustrated by the lack of silence in my life because I delude myself into believing that if I had more silence, I would be more contemplative and open to divine inspiration....
Thomas J Lucas, a trooper in the Cape Mountain Rifles of the Cape Colony during the mid-19th century, kept a private journal. He began it when he was shipped off from London on the...
Ethics & Human Dignity / Ntabeni / Society
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published March 11, 2017 · Last modified April 18, 2017
It has been said the gentrification of our cities is quietly achieving what apartheid regime could not complete: cleansing the inner city areas of the poor. And since the poor in South Africa are...
President Zuma has been at it again, calling out, in desperation, about how the African National Congress was founded by God, thus wanting to equate it with the church. And by church I mean...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published January 11, 2017 · Last modified January 10, 2017
To say 2016 was a tumultuous year — in national and international affairs, and for me personally — is an understatement. At home, our president careered from one scandal into another. Nevertheless, though bruised,...
God’s first call to us is to be human. Hence St Irenaeus could say: “The glory of God is man fully alive.” The 19th-century Danish theologian and philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said: “To need God is...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published November 18, 2016 · Last modified November 17, 2016
The rapid evolution of the Fees Must Fall (#FMF) student movement — right to the brink of a revolution — has caught many, including the government, by surprise. What is clear is that South...
by Mphuthumi Ntabeni · Published October 21, 2016 · Last modified October 19, 2016
The silent grief when faced with unimaginable suffering at the hands of evil. The haunting image of the solitary figure of a seemingly broken Pope Francis on his visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland during World...
