Theologians in higher education have wrestled with the notion of reconciliation, forgiveness and ubuntu in their actions and writings since before the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 in South Africa. In their reflections and actions Black Theology of liberation (BTL) in academia produced three different phases of BTL namely the Black solidarity phase, the Black solidarity—the material phase, and the Non-racial phase to reflect on oppression and liberation in the black struggle against apartheid, but also to transform theological education in South Africa. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa the liberative paradigms of black theology and ubuntu were usurped, silenced, and assimilated to fit the TRC’s constitutional mandate; the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995. Thus, manipulating Black people to accept reconciliation, forgiveness, and ubuntu without justice. This chapter, therefore, argues that the new South Africa is built using documents and works produced by black theologians without much attention to the cries of black people for justice, restitution and ubuntu reflected in their liberative paradigms. Primarily, the chapter argues black theology and ubuntu in theological education offer the needed epistemologies to transform theology curriculum in higher education and the lives of black people 30 years after the democratic dispensation.

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Black Theology and Ubuntu: A Narrative of Integration, Manipulation, and Assimilation in Theological Education in South Africa

  • Sandiswa Lerato Kobe

摘要

Theologians in higher education have wrestled with the notion of reconciliation, forgiveness and ubuntu in their actions and writings since before the Sharpeville massacre in 1960 in South Africa. In their reflections and actions Black Theology of liberation (BTL) in academia produced three different phases of BTL namely the Black solidarity phase, the Black solidarity—the material phase, and the Non-racial phase to reflect on oppression and liberation in the black struggle against apartheid, but also to transform theological education in South Africa. At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa the liberative paradigms of black theology and ubuntu were usurped, silenced, and assimilated to fit the TRC’s constitutional mandate; the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No. 34 of 1995. Thus, manipulating Black people to accept reconciliation, forgiveness, and ubuntu without justice. This chapter, therefore, argues that the new South Africa is built using documents and works produced by black theologians without much attention to the cries of black people for justice, restitution and ubuntu reflected in their liberative paradigms. Primarily, the chapter argues black theology and ubuntu in theological education offer the needed epistemologies to transform theology curriculum in higher education and the lives of black people 30 years after the democratic dispensation.