Growing Green Economies:

Craig Makhosi Charnock

The critical role of language and

relationships in a sustainable transition

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Ubuntu / menslikheid / humanness:

Umntu ngumntungabanye abantu

A person is a person through or because of other people

Drivers of unsustainability:

1. Unconscious

consumerism

2. Competition for resources

Why?

Ignorance, fear and

miseducation

Breakdown of human

Relationships

1. To SELF – addiction,

depression, materialism

2. To OTHER – war,

oppression, racism, abuse

Unity Consciousness (UBuntu)

i.e. Good relationships

vs

Separation / Division Consciousness

(Apartheid)

i.e. Bad relationships

“If you talk to a man in a language

he understands, that goes to his

head.

If you talk to him in his language,

that goes to his heart”

Madiba

Nelson Mandela:

”(Learning each other’s languages) is the best way

to contribute to nation building and reconciliation,"

Mandela said.

"Those among us who do not know Afrikaans must

now learn to study this language. Those among us

who do not know Zulu, Xhosa and Sotho must now

learn to study these languages."

Balanced Transformation

The privileged also need to transform!

School Immersions:

A balanced, empowering programme

Enkosi

Thank you

Dankie

@UBuntu Bridge

www.learnxhosa.co.za