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  • South African, a value system informed by the precept of Ubuntu - umuntu ngumuntu ngabanye.

    Address to the nation by South African President Thabo Mbeki 2008

  • With regard to the latter, our successive governments from 1994 to date have worked consistently to encourage the entrenchment in our country of a value system whose observance would make all of us Proudly South African, a value system informed by the precept of Ubuntu – umuntu ngumuntu ngabanye.

    Thabo Mbeki's Resignation Speech: Transcript 2008

  • With regard to the latter, our successive governments from 1994 to date have worked consistently to encourage the entrenchment in our country of a value system whose observance would make all of us Proudly South African, a value system informed by the precept of Ubuntu - umuntu ngumuntu ngabanye.

    ANC Today 2008

  • With regard to the latter, our successive governments from 1994 to date have worked consistently to encourage the entrenchment in our country of a value system whose observance would make all of us Proudly South African, a value system informed by the precept of Ubuntu - umuntu ngumuntu ngabanye.

    ANC Today 2008

  • The intervening period of slavery, colonialism. and apartheid did much to hurt the concepts of ubuntu and umuntu as an attained, learned and taught status.

    ANC Today 2007

  • To the contrary, there is a lot of individuality, but its acceptable existence exists within the self same context of umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Manje uthi umuntu eqeda i-training yakhe kanti umsebenzi uyaqhubeka kwi site, isiphele kudala leyo project ebeyakhiwa, angabe esalithola ithuba loku - practiza ikhono alifundile.

    Speech by Samuel Nxumalo During the Public Works Budget Vote Debate 2007

  • Only now there are no opportunities for people to learn to be an umuntu-abantu, So, many do not attain the status.

    ANC Today 2007

  • There are various contexts in which one's approval by others is demonstrative of the attainment of the umuntu status.

    ANC Today 2007

  • It should be pointed out that in isiZulu there are many words which define people who, through their behavioral patterns and other, are not able to attain the status of umuntu.

    ANC Today 2007

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  • Not to be confused with Ubuntu.

    October 7, 2008