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Growing Green Economies:
Craig Makhosi Charnock
The critical role of language and
relationships in a sustainable transition
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Website: www.learnxhosa.co.za
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