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Jika Uluntu A non-profit that provides vulnerable children with an opportunity to thrive. MBSA Partners

29/09/2026

We asked people to set down the titles they carry and spend an evening with the person beneath them.

Journey to Self: The First Leg — Roots & Rhythm came to life on 25 September at Art Versatile. Through performance and participation, we explored memory, identity, responsibility and what it means to return to ourselves in community.

Thank you to everyone who came into the room with openness. Thank you to the artists who gave these questions sound, movement and story, and to Art Versatile for welcoming us at short notice.

These photographs are our first glimpse. Later this week, we hope to share more of the people and creative work that shaped the journey.

Expression is African. Art is African. Healing is African.

If you were there, you are welcome to tell us one thing that stayed with you—here or privately. No pressure to share anything personal.

24/09/2026

VENUE CHANGE: Journey to Self goes ahead Fri 25 Sept at Art Versatile, 28 Recreation Road, East London. Arrive 17h30; performances 18h00–21h00. Please do not go to Abbotsford Christian Centre. Share with anyone attending.

17/09/2026

We're LIVE! 🎥 Join Jika Uluntu on TikTok. Get to know us, ask us anything about our work, and find out all about Journey to Self. Follow our page so you don't miss it. See you there! 💛

Nice or kind?I'm sitting across from you and there's lettuce in my teeth, you can either Be Nice or Be Kind!Nice keeps q...
15/09/2026

Nice or kind?
I'm sitting across from you and there's lettuce in my teeth, you can either Be Nice or Be Kind!

Nice keeps quiet and hopes I find out on my own. Kind tells me, even though it's awkward for both of us for a second.

My cousin asks to borrow money again. The last loan still isn't paid back.
Nice says: "Don't worry, pay me back when you can."
Kind says: "I can't this month. I still need the last one back."

Most of us are nice. We were raised to be. Nice keeps the peace, keeps the family happy, keeps the friendship, keeps the job. So we say "it's fine" when it isn't. We say "no problem" when it is a problem. We swallow it and move on.

But it doesn't move on. It sits in the body and waits.

Then one day that same cousin asks for R50 airtime and we explode. We shout about things from three years ago. Everyone is shocked, including us. But it was never about the R50. It was every "it's fine" we ever said.

Being nice is easy today and expensive later. Being kind is honest today, even when it's uncomfortable, so nothing has to build up and burst.

Kindness takes practice. It needs a place where you can say what's real without losing the people you love. Most of us don't have a place like that.

Journey to Self is a safe space where the voices telling you to be nice go quiet, and your own voice gets loud enough to teach you what it has always known: be kind to others, but be kind to yourself first.

One evening where artists guide you through sound, story and movement, and you get to put down everything you've been swallowing, at your own pace, without having to be nice about it.

Friday 25 September, Abbotsford Christian Centre, KuGompo. Link in the comments.

🎙️ WE’RE GOING BACK ON AIR.Last Tuesday, our Director, Ziyanda Xaso, joined Lucky G on Khululeka FM 100.4 for a conversa...
15/09/2026

🎙️ WE’RE GOING BACK ON AIR.

Last Tuesday, our Director, Ziyanda Xaso, joined Lucky G on Khululeka FM 100.4 for a conversation about culture, Ubuntu and identity.

It was meant to be thirty minutes.

But the calls, messages and voice notes made one thing clear: this was a conversation that needed more time. Some listeners told us they had pulled over just to listen. Others were already asking for Part Two before the programme had ended.

So tonight, we continue.

🌿 PART ONE: ROOTED IN WHO WE ARE

We explored culture, our elders, indigenous knowledge, identity, callings and the traditions that have shaped us.

🌱 PART TWO: REIMAGINING WHO WE CAN BECOME

Tonight, the conversation moves from remembering to becoming.

What do we do with the roots we inherit?

How do we hold onto what is sacred while questioning what no longer serves us?

How do we heal what has been broken, make sense of what has shaped us, and still give ourselves permission to become something new?

And what might this mean for a young person, a parent, a family or an entire community?

These are also some of the questions at the heart of Voices of Ubuntu’s Journey to Self.

Beginning on 25 September 2026, Journey to Self will unfold across six immersive legs over one year — using story, theatre, movement, ritual, reflection and Ubuntu to explore the journey from:

“Who am I?”
to
“Who am I becoming?”

📻 Khululeka FM 100.4 — Let’s Talk with Lucky G
🗓️ Tuesday, 15 September 2026
⏰ 19h00–19h30
🌍 Stream: www.khululekafm.co.za
📞 071 774 9714

Join the conversation. Bring your questions. Share this with someone who may need to hear it.

And if tonight’s conversation moves something in you, perhaps Journey to Self is where the conversation becomes an experience.

Details for the first leg will be shared in the comments.

Rooted in who we are.
Reimagining who we can become. 🌿

Address

4 Kew Road, Vincent
East London
5247

Opening Hours

Monday 08:30 - 17:30
Tuesday 08:30 - 17:30
Wednesday 08:30 - 17:30
Thursday 08:30 - 17:30
Friday 08:30 - 17:30

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+27796297789

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