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Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective
Thesis (PhD)-University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/64316 Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective Muller, Julian C. herman@holtzhausen.com Holtzhausen, Herman Family Therapy Land reform UCTD Fictional research writing Land reform Mindfulness Narrative Postfoundational Share schemes Social constructionism Ubuntu Theology theses SDG-01 SDG-01: No poverty Theology theses SDG-02 SDG-02: Zero hunger Theology theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Theology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Thesis (PhD)-University of Pretoria, 2018. Agricultural land ownership, tenure and access in South Africa are historically determined along racial lines. Reactions to this untenable problem are becoming increasingly volatile. More than two decades into South Africa’s constitutional democracy, little has changed to empower the previously disadvantaged majority of South Africans in this regard. The resentment about this institutionalised discrimination and poverty is growing in the wake of government’s failures to meaningfully address the situation. For many Black South Africans, this remains a symbol of their dehumanisation by the previous racist government and its supporting voters. I am a sixth generation land owner of a small-scale farming operation in the arid North West Province of South Africa. This research represents my efforts in searching for ways of creating a more equal and just relationship with my Tswana co-worker in terms of his access and tenure of land. In the final instance, this work would hopefully be of value to farmers and their labourers in similar contexts. I engaged a narrative enquiry based on social constructionism, employing postfoundational practical theology as interpreted and developed by Műller in his 7-steps to participate in this action research. Auto-ethnography and fictional research writing enabled me to problematise a dominant narrative that has become increasingly one-dimensional. According to this narrative, Whites stole the land at gunpoint or through trickery. Political leaders with varying agendas are prone to abusing this version of our past to the advancement of their self-enrichment and patronage networks. My methodology of choice offered the opportunity to establish a non-dominant narrative, using the particulars of this context to create a preferred outcome. I created a revisionist understanding of ubuntu as ‘right action’, which is helpful in securing Joba’s access and tenure to the land. Current affairs in terms of State Capture and other narratives that are dynamically related to this course of events, thicken the plot to such an extent that it causes strain between ubuntu and land reform. I engaged mindfulness as my chosen spirituality to create harmony rather than competition between land and ubuntu. Subsequently, it seems that Joba and my working partnership can be beneficial for both of us and also for other land owners and their co-labourers, particularly, when operated as a share scheme. bs2025 Practical Theology PhD Unrestricted SDG-01: No poverty SDG-02: Zero hunger SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2018-03-20T06:55:32Z 2018-03-20T06:55:32Z 2018-04-20 2018 Thesis Holtzhausen, H 2018, Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64316> A2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64316 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Family Therapy Land reform UCTD Fictional research writing Land reform Mindfulness Narrative Postfoundational Share schemes Social constructionism Ubuntu Theology theses SDG-01 SDG-01: No poverty Theology theses SDG-02 SDG-02: Zero hunger Theology theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Theology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective |
| title | Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective |
| title_full | Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective |
| title_fullStr | Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective |
| title_short | Land and Ubuntu as competing narratives in rural South Africa : a practical theological perspective |
| title_sort | land and ubuntu as competing narratives in rural south africa a practical theological perspective |
| topic | Family Therapy Land reform UCTD Fictional research writing Land reform Mindfulness Narrative Postfoundational Share schemes Social constructionism Ubuntu Theology theses SDG-01 SDG-01: No poverty Theology theses SDG-02 SDG-02: Zero hunger Theology theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Theology theses SDG-11 SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/64316 |