Basic Income Grant, Communities, Indigenous Knowledge Systems – Imagining the New South African Society
For Africans to live and thrive as a people we must, as a nation, commit social and cultural suicide, so that parts of our nation come out of merely being the Masses and Grassroots. We must resurrect, reclaim, recreate, reawaken, embrace and nurture the belief and culture which lie deep in our heart...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Johannesburg
2020-10-01
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| Series: | The Thinker |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/384/293 |
| Summary: | For Africans to live and thrive as a people we must, as a nation, commit social and cultural suicide, so that parts of our nation come out of merely being the Masses and Grassroots. We must resurrect, reclaim, recreate, reawaken, embrace and nurture the belief and culture which lie deep in our hearts and minds, which we achieved through a fierce and protracted liberation struggle, based on the belief that: ‘…South Africa belongs to all who live in it, united in our diversity...’ For us to do this we need a program of action to rebuild and develop the nation and the country. That program must have as its anchor the Freedom Charter and our National Constitution, both of which – it seems to me – must be the means to strive to understand and to achieve the cultural principles and expressions which must walk the alleys and streets of our townships, the footpaths of our rural areas, and the highways leading to our suburbs. Integral to those projects must be the means to conscientize and promote anti- corruption principles, the culture of entitlement, and the culture of dependency and expectation to be saved by a messiah culture. |
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| ISSN: | 2075-2458 2616-907X |