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highbeam.com – Apr 25, 2004
SundayIn South Africa, there is a word, “ubuntu. ” It’s a hard word to translate into English, which is too bad, because you hear it everywhere. You hear it everywhere because “ubuntu” explains so much about South Africa: community, sharing, connecting. In a word, ubuntu comes down to “humanity. I had been to South Africa once before. I had not been that impressed.
Students celebrate at Unbuntu school in Port Elizabeth. Since…
San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 18, 2004
At the Ubuntu charter school, sponsored by the New Jersey-based Ubuntu Educational Fund, nine high school students sit at a board table awaiting us. We introduce ourselves and settle in for a challenging conversation that goes far past our scheduled hour. I have not had such fun since my years as a college debater. This month they will spend two weeks as exchange students at a Harlem high school in New York. One spiky-haired young woman with the eyes of an acetylene torch has an intuitive, penetrating mind and would beat me down in any debate.
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Dispatch Online – Apr 28, 2004
That’s how lobola changed to a sexist and capitalist tradition,” said Mndende. “Some started to put a numerical value to their children and said ‘I’ve sent my daughter to school so she’s worth a,b,c’. ”
Mndende said there is no way that Africans can do away with this custom as it is central to ubuntu. “What we need is to go back and define it in the old traditional way, using cattle instead of rands,” she said. Mndende said people must stop perpetuating the lie that only men have to give something in this process. “A bride-to-be has to ukwambesa (give gifts to her parents-in-law), has to bring inkomo yomphothulo (cattle to bridge the friendship from the bride’s point of view) and inkomo yobulunga (cattle to produce other cattle to feed the bride’s children at her new home). In all, both sides have to pay along the way,” said Mndende.
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