South Africa: Ubuntu Booth Prioritises Frontline Healthcare Workers

"We believe that a person is a person through another person; that my humanity is caught up, bound up inextricably, with yours. When I dehumanise you, I inexorably dehumanise myself." This is Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's definition of ubuntu.

A team of academics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) agree. With the spirt of ubuntu in mind, they've put their heads together to develop a special COVID-19 testing station to safeguard healthcare workers at the coalface of the pandemic.

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