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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Ubuntu"”.
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The citizen: an Ubuntu personalism conception
In this thesis, I argue for an Ubuntu personalism conception of the citizen as a foundationalist account of a grounding for the pluralist political arrangement based on human rights. I start with John Rawls who employed what he called a political conception of the citizen to develop a neutralist …
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Corporate Governance and Ubuntu: a South African and Namibian perspective
… in relation to the African philosophy of Ubuntu is under analysed. While Ubuntu has been studied comprehensively in a number of legal disciplines, it has not enjoyed comparable attention in its application, relevance, and potential to enhance corporate governance practices in Africa. …
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Ubuntu : development and validation of a scale to measure African humanism
Ubuntu is an African humanist philosophy described by the Nguni aphorism “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” which translates as a person is a person through other people. While Ubuntu has been a domain of extensive scholarly research, to date almost all of this work has been philosophical or conceptual; by …
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Innovation and Empowerment: Transformational Leadership and Ubuntu in the Youth Choir
… aligns with transformational leadership and an ubuntu ethic on the rehearsal and performance practices of a youth choir, and on the development of choristers as global citizens. The secondary purpose was to examine these rehearsal and performance practices and the youth choir’s repertoire in …
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Black Feminist Liberatory Pedagogy and Ubuntu Solidarity: Toward an Otherwise World of Education
… do this work as a white woman scholar who seeks ubuntu feminist solidarity. The dissertation concludes with a posture of hope. Hope of an otherwise world (Greene, 1995) of education in which ubuntu feminist scholarship will inform praxis so that students may experience pedagogies that liberate …
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Exploring foundation phase teachers’ practices of infusing Ubuntu in a rural KwaZulu-Natal school
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2023.
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uBuntu and certainty in commercial contracting: A study of burial societies in Cape Town
… mechanisms are based on the notion of ubuntu. Given the nature of burial societies, this thesis investigates whether their underlying agreements are certain and enforceable. This requires an in-depth understanding of the contracting practices of burial societies. The law perceives the …
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Addressing Fragmented Relationships and Dislocation in Environmental Thinking: Ubuntu Insights on Human and Nonhuman Wellbeing
… this question, this dissertation offers an ubuntu-inspired solution. Ubuntu views humanity as inseparably connected with other beings and located in the environment. I propose that, in rejecting (human and nonhuman) capacities-based approaches to what counts morally, ubuntu provides an …
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Employee engagement: extension of the job demands resource (JD-R) model with the ubuntu construct
… a typical culturally specific African construct, Ubuntu, in order to increase its relevance to the African context. Mediation and moderation analysis were used to test the hypothesised relationships in two cross sectional samples of 175 public sector and 263 private sector employees. Results …
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The prevalence and risk factors of diabetes mellitus among tuberculosis patients at Ubuntu clinic, Khayelitsha
Summary: There is strong evidence suggesting that diabetes mellitus (DM) triples the risk of tuberculosis (TB) disease and worsens TB outcomes. South Africa carries a heavy burden of TB which is primarily driven by the human deficiency virus (HIV). The burden of non-communicable disease is also …
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Interpreting the Culture of Ubuntu: The Contribution of a Representative Indigenous African Ethics to Global Bioethics
Ubuntu is a worldview and a way of life shared by most Africans south of Sahara. Basically Ubuntu underlines the often unrecognized role of relatedness and dependence of human individuality to other humans and the cosmos. The importance of relatedness to humanity is summarized by the two maxims of …
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“During the pandemic, the sense of Ubuntu was fantastic”: a participatory research study commemorating community mobilisation
The COVID-19 pandemic will forever be etched into the world's collective memory as a defining event of our generation as the ramifications will be felt and experienced long into the future. To understand the effects and learn from the experiences of a community organization in a pandemic, the …
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Enforcement of refugee rights in South Africa through public interest litigation in the spirit of Ubuntu
… PIL aligns with the African philosophy of Ubuntu, emphasizing interconnectedness and humanity. The thesis contends that PIL, deeply rooted in Ubuntu, can serve as a catalyst for change, fostering a compassionate and inclusive approach to refugee protection in South Africa. The dissertation …
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Evoking Belonging: Enlivening Ubuntu As Social Sculpture for Cultural Transformation towards Ecological Citizenship in Sustainable City Making
… the Evoking Belonging approach comprising the Ubuntu Practices. These are informed by my Evoke theory of inclusive and equitable participatory enquiry. The practice emphasises the significance of experiential knowledge (lived experience), enlivenment and performance. Experiential knowledge is …
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Ubuntu: um contributo africano para um maior universalismo dos “Direitos Humanos Universais”– o caso de Maputo (Moçambique)
… existência de uma visão de mundo afro-austral – Ubuntu –, que engloba um conjunto de princípios ético-normativos de organização social, filosofia e estilo de vida Ubu-ntu e de relação do ser humano com a comunidade, humanidade e a natureza, com validade para constituir uma proposta reformadora …
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Colonialism, Customary Authority, and Constitutionalism: Rethinking Gender, Justice, and Tenure Reform in South Africa through Ubuntu and Intersectionality
… can unsettle those hierarchies. Using ubuntu and intersectionality as complementary analytical frameworks, the thesis re-thinks the relationship between law, custom, and gender justice. Intersectionality exposes how gender intersects with class, race, and rurality to shape women’s …
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The prevention of unconscionable abuse of the separate personality of the company through corporate governance, business ethics and ubuntu
… and then adulterated by decades of apartheid. Ubuntu has been far less welcomed in the field of private law than public law.1 Davis affirms that Ubuntu and private law remain a bridge away.2 If a company’s shareholders are shielded from both financial and ethical liability, and the corporation …
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Developing an Ubuntu-infused e-commerce business model for South African small businesses based on a holacratic organisational structure
… herein incorporates the communitarian values of Ubuntu, which is the prevalent axiological system in South Africa. In the business model Ubuntu is blended with the self-governance organisational structure of holacracy. This complements the collaborative and self-organisation trait of South …
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An African Dream Play = Isivuno Sama Phupha : reconstructing the spirit of ubuntu in the contemporary urban 'village' through theatre
… provide a means of reconstructing the spirit of ubuntu through theatre. It seeks - both in process and presentation - to include in this reconstruction, that which is popularly known as moral regeneration - which I see rather as spiritual regeneration. My contention is that we, and particularly …
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