![]() ![]() However, farm attacks and farm murders have become a major concern in South Africa, while there are also continuous incidents of racism experienced by the black community in post-apartheid South Africa that raises a question about the authenticity of the Rainbow Nation. After the first democratic elections in 1994, South Africa was declared the ‗Rainbow Nation‘ to welcome the country‘s changing racial and cultural practices. ![]() ![]() In public discourse, these issues appear to be the manifestations of the seeds of institutional racism that were sown by the genocide implemented by the Voortrekkers during the apartheid era. Since the demise of the apartheid regime in the 1990s, South Africa perennially experiences racial tension, which manifests in various layers, including the murder of farmers and farmworkers, among other incidents. This work is novel as I appropriate Metz’s understanding of ubuntu as a normative ethical theory to show the importance and the nature of the realignment of the “global institutional order” to ubuntu in a way which promotes the common good of the global community of human beings. ![]() I will show that the limitation of ubuntu due to its application in the framework of liberal constitutional democracy and neoliberal “global institutional order” that serve the interests of global capital and at the same time undermine the economic interests of impoverished black Africans requires ubuntu normative ethical theory to establish an understanding of a rearrangement of the “global institutional order” in a way which fits ubuntu. The pro-ubuntu camp maintains that ubuntu is relevant as a normative ethical concept and as the underlying moral framework of reconciliatory politics of South Africa’s rainbow nation. Furthermore, the postcolonial state tends to undermine the common good of society. The incompatibility school of thought maintains that ubuntu is incompatible with modern society’s politico-juridical order and neoliberal economic system that promotes individualism and unequal distribution of wealth in the context of economic marginalisation and severe impoverishment of the black African majority. ![]()
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