If you were not up at 5 to hear Stocki's Pause For Thought and you really don't want to listen to the entire Early Breakfast show to hear his dulcit tones(http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x8hmm/The_Early_Breakfast_Show_11_01_2011/) here is the script!
Every other summer over this first decade of the century I’ve taken student teams to Cape Town to do all kinds of charity work. You don’t need to spend much time in South Africa before you start asking how Nelson Mandela managed to create a Rainbow Nation out of such a viciously divided country. On one trip in 2004 no matter where we went there was a one-word answer on everyone’s lips for Mandela’s miracle. In a township discussion in Guguletu, a Sunday sermon in Masiphumelele and in a question and answer time in the white suburb offices of the International Centre for Transitional Justice, the word was omnipresent – Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is a Xhosa word and actually the band U2 has come up with as good a definition as I have ever heard – “all because of you I am.” It is a philosophy of interdependence…..a belief that we are not islands but need one another to fulfil the full potential of our humanity. When Mandela left prison and walked forward to the microphone to make his first public speech in 27 years there must have been fear in the white community that he would shout, “go get them!” and start a bloody revolution. He didn’t. Instead that wise man spoke out the wisdom of Ubuntu. He told the very divided nation that they needed each other and they were going to begin to work together. He and his majority black community needed his white fellow countrymen who had been his enemy for so long.
It is a word that has lived with me ever since. As a Christian I asked myself if I could find any sign of this Xhosa wisdom in the Scriptures. And I soon realised that it was the core of what God had told his people to believe. The Jewish prayer used by Jesus as the most important commandment tells us to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbour as yourself.” The Jewish concept of Shalom and the Xhosa concept of Ubuntu are closely related. It’s about how we need each other and have a stake in each other’s wellbeing. One part of the community can’t truly thrive while another part is in the dirt, and by excluding any one group we lose the opportunity to deepen our own humanity…..the secret wisdom of how Nelson Mandela created a rainbow nation.
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