Nixolisa ngani? Can white SA live up to ubuntu, the African philosophy Tutu globalised?

In failing to repair relations and right the dispossession of land as ubuntu demands, white South Africans are yet to meaningfully reconcile with black people, writes Panashe Chigumadzi

09 January 2022 - 00:00 By PANASHE CHIGUMADZI

 Under a 1986 newsletter headline, “Ubuntu, Abantu, Abelungu (https://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/ubuntu-abantu-abelungu)”, Black Sash, the anti-apartheid organisation founded as the vanguard of white liberal women’s opposition in SA, reported surprising findings from a white fieldworker in its programme against forced land removals — black people of the land do not consider white people to be people. That is, we do not consider them to be abantu. Instead, they are abelungu...

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