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Last week an unusual gathering took place in the remains of the old chapel at the Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre in Roodepoort, Johannesburg. The meeting may have been understated and out of sight, but to those present it felt like history was being brought back to life.
As South Africa marks Human Rights Day it is worth reflecting on what has been achieved, what policies and interventions are needed, and what the future trajectories might be.
The Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre represented ubuntu in very practical ways, expressing its core values of ‘Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: You are because I am, I am because you are’. That is why it seems inconceivable that what was once an oasis for people seeking peace and human rights will be.
From the very beginning, Wilgespruit in Roodepoort became an oasis of peace and non-racialism, used for meetings, religious meditation and recreation. It hosted workcamps where participants discovered that ‘although they have skins of different colours and are kept by the rigid conventions of.