The Clan - Ubuntu

06/03/2026

2 Weekends to Go – Ubuntu Clan Build Call

Clan is getting ready to return to the dust, and we’ve officially entered the final stretch.
Two weekends to go before we head to Tankwa!!!

The recent weather slowed our build schedule a bit, so now we’re calling in the village.
All hands on deck.

If you’re in the Joburg area and feel like getting your hands dirty while helping create something beautiful for the Playa, we’d love you to join us. Come spend a few hours, learn something new, meet the crew, and help bring Clan to life.

This might also be the last chance to get involved with the build in Joburg before everything heads to Tankwa.

If you want to help with the build, please join the Friends of the Clan WhatsApp group.
The address, build times, and arrangements will all be shared there:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IxkI8v5YdRM1MEOmfVya6Z?mode=gi_t

If you can’t make it in person but still want to support the mission, please consider contributing to our BackaBuddy campaign.
Every bit helps us get Clan built, packed, and safely out to Tankwa:
https://www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/ubuntu-in-action-supporting-the-clan-build

It takes a village to build something magical in the desert.

See you in the dust. 🔥

27/02/2026

Happy FriYAY Jozi Burners 🔥

Another epic weekend with the Clan is loading… and you’re invited.

We’re building, we’re painting, we’re making magic with good humans, good vibes, and lekker tunes in the background. Whether you’re a pro with a paintbrush or just keen to graft and laugh, there’s a spot for you.

Pull through. Get dirty. Be part of the story.

If you’re joining, please DM me so we can plan meals and make sure everyone’s fed and happy 😬😅
There is also a group that you can join to stay up to date on the happenings of Coan Ubuntu!

And don’t forget — if you can’t make it in person, you can still support the dream.
Our Back a Buddy campaign is live, and every share and every contribution helps us bring this artwork to life.
Let’s rally behind Clan - Ubuntu and make it happen!

Friends of the Clan:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IxkI8v5YdRM1MEOmfVya6Z?mode=gi_t

Back a Buddy:
https://www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/ubuntu-in-action-supporting-the-clan-build

Afrika Burn is built by people who choose to show up and contribute. It is a temporary city shaped by participation, communal effort, creativity, an...

26/02/2026

Straight from the artist himself.

Meet - The artist behind this year Clan!

No interpretation needed.
No extra framing.
Just the vision, in his own words.

Listen.

Neo GM Monnapule

24/02/2026

Strength looks like this.

She helps build the structure. She lifts, carries, shows up on site day after day. And then she steps into the kitchen and makes sure the entire Clan is fed and happy.

Builder. Feeder. Backbone.

Just look at those smiles. That’s not just good food. That’s care. That’s community. That’s Ubuntu in action.
If you believe in backing hands that build and hearts that feed, you can support us through Back A Buddy.

Link in bio.

20/02/2026

AFRIKA BURN 2026 · THROUGH THE PRISM
Bringing the Clan to Tankwa

The Clan is the heart of AfrikaBurn.

For one week it stands on the Binnekring. People gather beneath it. Laugh. Cry. Connect. And at the end, it burns.

That burn means something because of everything that came before it.

This year, the Clan begins in Vosloorus. In yards and workshops. In long evenings after work. In tired hands and shared focus. It is being built in the spirit of Ubuntu.

“I am because we are.”

Ubuntu is where humanity meets the principles of AfrikaBurn — communal effort, participation, gifting, radical inclusion, civic responsibility. It is people showing up because something shared needs to stand.

Now we need to get it to Tankwa.

Transport, fuel, rigging, hardware and safe installation in the desert all come at a cost. The structure is real. The responsibility is real.

If you feel called to stand with us, please support our BackaBuddy campaign. Every contribution helps carry the Clan across distance and raise it safely into place.

Support here:
https://www.backabuddy.co.za/campaign/ubuntu-in-action-supporting-the-clan-build

Ubuntu.
I am because we are.

09/02/2026

Another Friends of the Clan weekend done and dust-ed ✨
Big thank you to everyone who came through, lent a hand, shared a laugh, or brought good energy.
Always grateful for this crew and the way things come together when people show up.



Thank you Kelsey for the awesome photos 📸

05/02/2026

Being invited to AfrikaBurn for the first time feels like “a quiet homecoming into something I have always carried within me.”

Being part of the build, The Clan – Clan Ubuntu, reminds me that “we are not spectators, but contributors.”
Ubuntu - I am because we are - reflects how I move through the world: learning “how to serve without losing myself, and how to belong without shrinking.”

As kitchen manager, I may be feeding bodies, but “in truth, I am tending to energy.”

Food becomes medicine. Meals become ritual. In the sharing, the laughter, and the long days of building, we remember that “we are not just building a structure; we are building relationships.”

Working alongside my husband in this space has shifted something deep. “Healing happens quietly, through doing.”

AfrikaBurn has become a living expression of Ubuntu - “I am because we are.”

— Lee Vilakazi-Mngomezulu

05/02/2026

This shaded space was built using offcuts from the wood we are already working with on site. Pieces left over finding their way into something that offers shade rest and pause 🪵✨🤝

Artists tend to notice what is usually overlooked. There is a kind of beauty and possibility in the mundane in offcuts marks and remnants when we slow down and look again 🎨🛠️

This space holds quiet moments between tasks A step out of the sun A breath before returning to the work 🌞🌿

This is part of how Clan comes together through shared effort care and presence 🧡🔥

03/02/2026

Meet Neo GM Monnapule.
The human currently covered in sawdust and good ideas.

He’s the artist behind this year’s Clan build.
Part maker, part problem-solver, full-time “let’s just try it and see.” If there’s wood, a tool, and a vague plan, Neo’s already halfway there.

He builds like we Burn: together, with laughs, wrong turns, tea breaks, and moments of “oh… that actually works.”

What’s coming isn’t just a structure; it’s a hangout, a gift, and probably a story or two waiting to happen.

This is Neo.
Built with joy.
Offered to the desert. 🔥🛠️🖤

02/02/2026

Build breaks. Shared shade. Good people.

The first weekend with Friends of the Clan wasn’t about speed or perfection.
It was about showing up. Sitting down. Sharing a moment in between the work.

This is what Friends of the Clan means to us. People who give their time, their hands, their laughter, and their presence. No hierarchy. No spectators. Just humans building something together, one plank, one conversation, one shared pause at a time.

The structure will change. The city will rise and disappear.
But these moments, the shade, the breaks, the people, that’s the real build.