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pocoloco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-09-08 11:16 AM
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Ubuntu Obama Wallpaper
Or would that be Obama Ubuntu Wallpaper?


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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-09-08 11:35 AM
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1. From "Frontiers" ....
"These hospitable responses of the Xhosa were strongly affected by the emphasis they placed upon a value common to the Bantu speakers and called ubuntu, humaneness. Its instinct was the preservation and stability of the whole, and the Xhosa appear to have evolved an especially acute perception of it. Its working within their codes was notable even in war, when woman and children were never killed."

"Ubuntu underlined the entire basis of their intricate code of social laws. `The primary objective of Xhosa law... is to preserve tribal equilibrium. The law therefore guides towards keeping the tribe from disintegration', John Henderson Saga wrote: `Any punishment administered for disturbing the balance of tribal life is of a constructive or corrective character; to restore what has been lost in stability by the action of any individual or individuals............... this idea is ingrained in the fibre of the people.' The ethical question scarcely counts, restoration is the principal thing.'"

"The chiefs, especially those of royal lineage, are invested with much authority, but it is an authority founded on habitual reverence for high rank, rather than on the coercion of arbitrary power. They live amongst the people as friends and fellow-labourers and have never adopted that haughty exclusion and parade with which the noble caste is invested in other countries...............The main safeguard against the abuse of power by the chief was through his group of councilors, known as the amapakati, `the middle ones', who were his Parliament and Supreme Court. He ruled on their advice, and was not expected to go against it...............A chief who constantly sought to put himself above the traditional laws and custom was abandoned by the people, who then allied themselves with another chief."

Nelson Mandela is Xhosa.
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