South Africa finds itself at a defining moment. Across parts of our country, migrants and refugees are experiencing fear, intimidation and uncertainty. Families are being displaced. Small businesses that have sustained township economies for years have closed their doors. Children have had their education disrupted. Many innocent people now live behind locked gates, afraid to venture into the streets where they once lived and worked in peace. This quiet suffering should trouble every South African.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu often reminded us that our humanity is bound together. Ubuntu means, “My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours.”
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, his background or his religion.”
These timeless words of Nelson Mandela speak just as powerfully today as they did during South Africa’s transition to democracy.
Hatred is learned.
Compassion is cultivated.
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