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More than a decade ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu defined Ubuntu as an ethic which is upheld by someone who ‘…has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.’ In short, he described [...]
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South Africa beyond 2010
I recently had the opportunity to attend a breakfast seminar hosted by the Ubuntu Foundation. The Guest Speaker was Guy Lundy, a futurist, strategic thinker and economic analyst. You may have read Mr. Lundy’s book South Africa: Reasons to Believe. Or you may be familiar with an email that spread like wildfire all over the [...]
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The Africa Centre for Cities (UCT) in partnership with the African Centre recently hosted a debate series, the Cape Futures Public Debate Series at the Spier Estate in Stellenbosch, Cape Town.
The first debate addressed a common challenge in developing countries, namely slum eradication. The aptly titled first debate, ‘Is Slum Eradication the Right Policy Objective’ [...]
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