To Kliptown, in Gauteng, where busybodies from across the political spectrum gathered at the National Cohesion Summit and bored the pants off one another.
The summit, you'll recall, was first mooted by President Jacob Zuma back in 2009 when he somehow had an idea that a culture of being respectful to elders such as himself would be in the national interest. It was then duly forgotten and allowed to quietly die in a corner somewhere.
The furore over artist Brett Murray's The Spear, however, presented arts and culture minister Paul Mashatile with an opportunity to exhume the mouldering beast, douse it with patchouli and, in the interests of a better and caring society, provide a platform from which to guff on about the sacred cow that is ubuntu.
The author and social historian Luli Callinicos, for example, had a fair bash. "Our own culture is being undermined," she said. "We need to restore ubuntu. Because this is something we can teach the rest of the world. We must be careful not to lose it."
On the contrary, let's just stop talking about it altogether. Never mention it again.
Ubuntu, I've heard ad nauseam, has many qualities, all of them purportedly good. For instance, it dictates that we place a high value on human life, promote understanding and tolerance, are generous in our dealings with others, and so on.