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Ubuntu

Ubuntu can help achieve the dream of zero landfill
Thought Leader
/ 14 May 2025

Ubuntu can help achieve the dream of zero landfill

Our waste-management sites are filling up fast, with serious health and environmental consequences

By Thando Mazibuko
Workers’ Day: How the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration can promote social justice through ubuntu
Opinion
/ 1 May 2025

Workers’ Day: How the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration can promote social justice through ubuntu

The CCMA uses dialogue based on conciliation and mediation to transform labour relations

By Katlego Letlonkane
The ubuntu economy can help tackle South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis
Top Achievers 2025
/ 31 January 2025

The ubuntu economy can help tackle South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis

Using an ubuntu-based approach, centring care, creativity and climate, the education system can be changed to better align with aspirations and market needs

By Tebogo Moalusi
Embracing pride and progress: Reflecting on 35 years of LGBTQIA+ advocacy in Africa
Partner Content
/ 14 November 2024

Embracing pride and progress: Reflecting on 35 years of LGBTQIA+ advocacy in Africa

Koketso Rathumbu and esteemed panelists unpacked how violence still impacts the LGBTQIA+ community and how this marginalised population is affected by stigma and persisting barriers during a webinar in partnership with the Mail & Guardian

By Koketso Rathumbu
Dear EFF, Africans do not insult the dead
Opinion
/ 19 September 2024

Dear EFF, Africans do not insult the dead

The Economic Freedom Fighters spat on Gordhan, the real freedom fighter who embodied integrity

By Mzwandile Manto kaB. Wapi
Moral regeneration has failed miserably in South Africa
Opinion
/ 17 July 2024

Moral regeneration has failed miserably in South Africa

Cynical politicians have repurposed ubuntu into people helping one another to eat a little

By Piet Naudé
Community Sports Solutions takes Gugulethu youth off the streets
Partner Content
/ 28 March 2024

Community Sports Solutions takes Gugulethu youth off the streets

Sponsorship is required for the initiative to adequately fulfil its objectives

By Partner Content
Proudly woman, proudly South African
Opinion
/ 9 August 2023

Proudly woman, proudly South African

Women exhibit a radical resistance to the war within and the war experienced in their daily lives.

By Quraysha Ismail Sooliman and Nomusa Mlondo
Xenophobia and the beggaring of neighbours
Opinion
/ 7 October 2022

Xenophobia and the beggaring of neighbours

South Africa is quick to forget ubuntu or its own destabilising role when it comes to regional policies

By Colin Chasi
OPINION | How I found out my dog wasn’t racist
Opinion
/ 18 June 2022

OPINION | How I found out my dog wasn’t racist

Having a hound that barks at black people is tricky if you’re a white kid moving to a township

By David Beukes
Charter For Compassion is a good guide for continuing Tutu’s legacy
National
/ 5 February 2022

Charter For Compassion is a good guide for continuing Tutu’s legacy

The best way to honour Tutu’s legacy is to champion his values of unity, justice and compassion, as espoused in the charter to which he contributed

By Nic Paton
Toxic workplaces: Are human rights organisations some of the culprits?
Opinion
/ 1 February 2022

Toxic workplaces: Are human rights organisations some of the culprits?

Some human rights organisations are enabling toxicity to harmful degrees

By Portia C Allen
Lest we forget Tutu’s anger, and our own faces
Opinion
/ 11 January 2022

Lest we forget Tutu’s anger, and our own faces

The hardest part of reckoning is the reckoning and where the archbishop is resented it is not for the ways in which the TRC failed but those in which it succeeded and brought an unfathomable past into a flawed present, writes Elisha Kunene.

By Elisha Kunene
We were separated by colonial borders and lost our ubuntu
Opinion
/ 2 November 2021

We were separated by colonial borders and lost our ubuntu

Afrophobia is an imported anti-African sentiment that internalises colonialism because current state borders never existed in African societies

By Zoleka Mazibuko
Racial capitalism destroys ubuntu
Opinion
/ 28 August 2021

Racial capitalism destroys ubuntu

South Africans’ behaviour and attitudes show that poor black working-class people, and black women in particular, are denied
their innate humanity

By Andile Zulu
We must recover our moral authority, the ubuntu to deal with violence
Opinion
/ 14 July 2021

We must recover our moral authority, the ubuntu to deal with violence

Contemporary traditions of ubuntu have cut Africans off from memories and systems of thought about when and how to fight

By Colin Chasi
Palliative care needs to include spiritual care
Opinion
/ 5 July 2021

Palliative care needs to include spiritual care

The person who is dying needs relief from pain and symptom control and they their families also need psychosocial, bereavement, emotional and spiritual support

By Ronita Mahilall and Leslie Swartz
Cape Town fire update: Mop-up operations underway, students receive local support
National
/ 20 April 2021

Cape Town fire update: Mop-up operations underway, students receive local support

Clean-up operations and repairs to infrastructure are being initiated, while the full extent of the damage wrought by the fire is still being assessed

By Eunice Masson
Believe in the goodness of humankind
National
/ 3 April 2021

Believe in the goodness of humankind

In this time of disaster, caused by a zero-sum approach to politics, economics and life, a Buddhist belief in the sacredness of all may save humankind

By Loren Braithwaite-Kabosha
Living up to our promise of ubuntu
Opinion
/ 22 February 2021

Living up to our promise of ubuntu

South Africa needs active citizens and real change starts in the home, with conversations about social justice

By Bruce Layzell and Pontsho Segwai
Black liberation dreaming: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digital essay game ‘a sun.black’
Friday
/ 24 January 2021

Black liberation dreaming: Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digital essay game ‘a sun.black’

Nolan Oswald Dennis’s digitial essay game, ‘a sun.black’, keeps all options available as it examines decolonisation

By Nkgopoleng Moloi
The Portfolio: Antony Kaminju
Friday
/ 27 November 2020

The Portfolio: Antony Kaminju

Antony Kaminju shares his experience of making a photo of the Roving Bantu Kitchen’s Sifiso Ntuli

By Antony Kaminju
Cape’s lively soil favours olive-oil toil
The Green Guardian
/ 8 November 2020

Cape’s lively soil favours olive-oil toil

The local industry makes less than 1% of the olive oil produced around the world every year, but the Western Cape’s climate is perfect for farmers

By Tshegofatso Mathe
When politicians talk about ‘our people’, who are they referring to?
Education
/ 31 October 2020

When politicians talk about ‘our people’, who are they referring to?

The same government that talks about being in service of ‘our people fails poor, black children whose only dream is to receive an education

By Bongekile Macupe
Why it’s crucial to collaborate
Opinion
/ 24 September 2020

Why it’s crucial to collaborate

We are able to achieve meaningful social change better, and faster, if we act together

By Marc Lubner
Xenophobia chips away at the African notion of ubuntu
Analysis
/ 27 May 2020

Xenophobia chips away at the African notion of ubuntu

The multifaceted and complex issues facing the continent can only be tackled effectively together

By Nitha Ramnath
Ubuntu should be at the centre of our response to Covid-19
Coronavirus
/ 12 May 2020

Ubuntu should be at the centre of our response to Covid-19

Demonstrations of common humanity are a powerful tool to help us navigate our way through the pandemic

By Mike Wooldridge
Eusebius McKaiser: Certain views about Covid-19’s global trajectory are anti-poor and anti-human
Analysis
/ 17 March 2020

Eusebius McKaiser: Certain views about Covid-19’s global trajectory are anti-poor and anti-human

This is no time to snigger at the high rates of coronavirus in the Global North. We could be just as hard hit — and it is poor people who will suffer the most

By Eusebius McKaiser
Mega lessons from mega-events
Article
/ 3 March 2020

Mega lessons from mega-events

Expo 2020 Dubai has already engaged 30 000 volunteers from the city

By Staff Reporter
The Pope’s message of unity and reconciliation
Africa
/ 16 September 2019

The Pope’s message of unity and reconciliation

The Pope’s primary message to each country responded to their unique circumstances

By Garth Abraham
Words have the power to effect change
Article
/ 22 August 2018

Words have the power to effect change

We need to think about the way we speak and the effect that has on society and our country

By Staff Reporter
We are not meant to be alone
Article
/ 13 July 2018

We are not meant to be alone

"uKukhapha is the bedrock of isiNtu. This untranslatable notion of uMntu ngumntu ngabantu".

By Milisuthando Bongela
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