![]() ![]() ![]() "The adoption of this Constitution lays the secure foundation for the people of South Africa to transcend the divisions and strife of the past, which generated gross violations of human rights, the transgression of humanitarian principles in violent conflicts and a legacy of hatred, fear, guilt and revenge. A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are."ĭesmond Tutu, No Future Without ForgivenessĨ. It says rather: I am human because I belong. We say, A person is a person through other persons. It is to say, My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours. Then you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. When we want to give high praise to someone we say, Yu, u nobuntu Hey, so-and-so has ubuntu. It speaks of the very essence of being human. ![]() " Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. ![]()
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