Covid-19 has enabled us to demonstrate our ability to shift from our tendency to be pre-occupied with the pursuit of personal success to rally together with empathy and compassion to collaborate in response to this existential crisis.
Resilience is essential to the future that lies ahead of us, given the multilayered crises we are likely to continue to face.
This reimagined Africa needs to set itself new goals and measures reflecting what would matter most in such a new civilisation.of Stanford Business School and member of the Club of Rome, in a recently published article as part of the Re-articulation of Human Development Project of the UN Development Programme, challenged the notion that humanity’s progress can adequately be measured by the economic goal of growing GDP.
We grew up in communities in which material sufficiency, spiritual and creative abundance for all was ensured through seamless collaborative approaches to common challenges and interdependence enacted in both good and bad times. President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to look no further than to leverage our rich heritage of ubuntu to create an inclusive New Economy characterised by peace, justice, material sufficiency and spiritual and creative abundance for all.
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