Muntu ndebele biography for kids

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From e’Lollipop to A Million Colours

Actors Wandile Molebatsi and Jason Hartman with former child actor Muntu Ndebele, whose life story is told in A Million Colours.

Andy Stead

It is Johannesburg in the early 1980s and my kids are watching a video: their favourite, local movie e’Lollipop. It’s a permanent fixture, watched so often that both kids know most of the dialogue by heart.

It’s a charming movie, so the incessant watching is no great hardship, and in fact I realise I know several of the crew, including director Ashley Lazarus who, after co-writing and directing it went on to enjoy an international award-winning career as film director, as well as co-producer Philo Pieterse and camera operator Rod Stewart.

The film, shot in 1975, was first released in 1976, tells the extraordinary story of a friendship between two South African children, one black, one white, which touched the hearts of audiences in the depths of the apartheid era. It went on to become a cult classic.

In the movie, Tsepo (Muntu Ndebele) and his friend Jannie (Norman Knox) meet when Jannie’s parents die tragically in a car crash in the Lesotho mountains. Jannie is sent to a missionary station in Tsepo’s village, where they become best friends.

Together with their dog Sugarball, life is full

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Ubuntu philosophy

Southern African philosophy

Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation:[ùɓúntʼù])^[1] (meaning humanity in some Bantu languages, such as Zulu) describes a set of closely related Bantu African-origin value systems that emphasize the interconnectedness of individuals with their surrounding societal and physical worlds. "Ubuntu" is sometimes translated as "I am because we are" (also "I am because you are"),^[2] or "humanity towards others" (Zuluumuntu ngumuntu ngabantu). In Xhosa, the latter term is used, but is often meant in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".^[3]

Different names in other Bantu languages

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Although the most popular term referring to the philosophy today is "ubuntu" (Zulu language, South Africa), the philosophy is believed to stretch back to the beginning of proto-Bantu language and has many other names in other Bantu languages.

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Muntu Nguni – description real bluff that dazzling A Jillion COLOURS film

20 Apr 2010

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Countries	Language	Word
Angola, DRC, ROC	Kongo	kimuntu, gimuntu
Botswana	Setswana	botho
Burundi, Rwanda	Kinyarwanda, Kirundi	ubuntu
Cameroon	Sawabantu	bato
DRC	Kongo, Luba-Kasai	bomoto, bantu
Kenya	Kikuyu	umundu^[a]
Kenya	Ekegusii	obonto