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By Sandile Memela: Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and her husband, Xolani Zuma, during the 30 June national protest marches. (Image: Facebook) There are lives that begin with one map and are redrawn by history. Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma is a young graduate professional. She studied with a clear picture in her mind: the suit, the boardroom table, the pen that signs decisions that change lives. “I spent all my life believing I would get an education so that one day I could sit in boardrooms and make decisions that would change people’s lives,” she says. History gave her a different classroom. The streets. When the Boardroom Door Did Not Open What turned a corporate ambition into civic courage was what she saw first-hand. In January 2026, as foun...

By Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller Jacinvta Ngobese-Zuma in the crowd. (Image: Facebook) When the leader of an anti-immigrant movement told her supporters in Bellville last weekend that "Ubuntu is suspended until further notice," she was not merely being inflammatory. She was attempting something more ambitious and more dangerous than a hard line on migration. She was trying to revoke the moral grammar of the country. Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, addressing a March and March crowd that had walked Voortrekker Road demanding the arrest of undocumented immigrants, framed it as a withdrawal of generosity. South Africa was the rainbow nation, she said; its harmony was mistaken for an invitation; outsiders "took advantage of our Ubuntu." And so, the conclusion: Ubuntu su...

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JACINTA NGOBESE-ZUMA: From Boardroom Dreams to Street Conviction, Founding Leader of March and March

UBUNTU CANNOT BE SUSPENDED: Whoever Tries Has Already Lost Their Own