Utilizing Ubuntu Philosophy in the Deconstruction of South African politics through sex, gender, and masculinity

Abstract

The Ubuntu philosophy embodies the ethics that describe Africans and their social actions by reflecting an African conception of human beings and their interaction with the community. The implementation of the Ubuntu philosophy optimizes an African organization's indigenous environment by encouraging and calling for the observance of ecology. The Ubuntu philosophy encourages group unity, which is vital to African societies' survival and collectivism. Ubuntu philosophy, in its various manifestations, is at the heart of African philosophy of life and belief systems, which represent people's daily lives. Practising the Ubuntu philosophy unleashes the potential of an African community in which people demonstrate humility, reciprocity, equality, and humanity. Thus, the reciprocity in the service of establishing and preserving just and communal societies ubuntu has become the centre agent in deconstructing the retrospect injustices where societies were discriminated against based on gender, sex and masculinity. Particularly within the political fraternity, and the construction of social behaviour amongst other things females and some males had been marginalised based on their sexual orientation, gender and masculinity. From this premise, the paper sought to qualitatively utilize ubuntu philosophy in the deconstruction of South African politics through sex, gender, and masculinity. Therefore, through a qualitative method of research, the paper shall adopt literature from existing scholarly work from accredited journals, books and a government report on the phenomena at hand.