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09-04-2021
Column: Relationships - UBUNTU
Column: Relationships - UBUNTU
An African aid worker reported that attempts to teach local children competitive games hopelessly failed. When it came to a running race that included a prize for the winner, the children linked arms and skipped across the finish line together. They did not grasp the concept of competition because it was not ingrained in their culture. In their community they grow up conditioned to an ubuntu system where all things are shared, including success and happiness.
Barak Obama made a speech at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. He said that ubuntu is a word that captures Mandela’s greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that are invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others and caring for those around us.
Imagine a world where the spirit of ubuntu was widespread, crossing every ethnic boundary. Is it possible that poverty could be eliminated? In 1987 Bob Hawke famously made a bold declaration that by 1990 no Austr

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