By Hanneke Stuit
Hanneke Stuit delves into Ubuntu's relevance either in South Africa and in Western contexts, examining the political and moral ramifications of the term's makes use of in several media together with literature, cartoons, journalistic fiction, ads, commodities, images, and political manifestos in modern South African culture.
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In TRC Report Vol. 6 3) As Mark Libin observes, the word “ubuntu” is, remarkably, rendered in one of the vernaculars without italics or quotation marks, as if it is as straightforward to English-language readers as the ones surrounding it. Libin suggests that the word thus paradoxically gains extra emphasis, “as though the call for communal regeneration may be located only in an emphatic understanding of the concept of ubuntu” (126). Libin is certainly right in signalling the central position of ubuntu in this discourse of communal reconciliation, but the actual position of the word “ubuntu” in the Act is not further scrutinised.
The quantity of food oscillated between abundance and lack. Therefore, entire communities were sometimes dependent on the help of others to survive. Over the course of time, an ethics of interdependence evolved which functioned as a kind of “insurance, with a man giving as much as he can on one day in case he is in need on another” (Barben 6). Thus, the uncertainties of life as a farmer dependent on the African climate could be counteracted: African societies cushioned themselves against…capricious changes of fortune by building elaborate systems of mutual support.
22. 23. 24. asked about the relation between ubuntu and how to treat visitors or strangers. Julius Gathogo sometimes equates what he calls “African hospitality” with ubuntu, while at other times he regards the latter as merely an aspect of the former (42). Yet, interestingly enough, the word “ubuntu” does not figure in Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom. For a more extensive reworking of the history of King Moshoeshoe, see Antjie Krog’s Begging To Be Black. King Moshoeshoe ruled what is now Lesotho.