LETTER: Ubuntu and progress should go hand in hand
As Africans we must elevate ourselves, but also ensure we help the impoverished and downtrodden
14 December 2020 - 19:37
Recent domestic economic developments and the novel coronavirus should be a reminder to Africans that no man is an island. Many indigenous South Africans have for some time now been taken in by morally bankrupt notions of rational self-interest and the cult of the individual.
Our indigenous SA ancestors rightly regarded the cult of the individual as an aberration that was alien to African customs and traditions and so should we, though many of us must shamefully admit to already having been taken in by such notions...
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