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ONE SMALL TOWN Parys
One Small Town - Parys 
One Small Town – Parys 
Contents 
One Small Town – Parys ........................................................................................................................1 1. Introducon................................................................................................................................2 1.1 The principles of One Small Town ............................................................................................3 1.2 Values of One Small Town ........................................................................................................3 2. Implementaon of One Small Town in Parys .............................................................................3 2.1 Council of Elders .......................................................................................................................3 2.2 Responsibilies of the Council of Elders...................................................................................5 3. Implementaon phase (2 years).................................................................................................7 4. Plan of acon for various sectors. ..............................................................................................7 4.1 Structure of communies.........................................................................................................7 4.2 Community projects .................................................................................................................7 4.3 The One Small Town legal system ............................................................................................8 4.4 Energy and electricity ...............................................................................................................8 4.5 Educaon & learning ................................................................................................................9 4.6 Farming and agriculture..........................................................................................................10 4.7 Forestry...................................................................................................................................11 4.8 Industry and manufacturing ...................................................................................................12 4.9 Arts and Culture......................................................................................................................12 4.10 Tourism and Hospitality........................................................................................................13 4.11 Recycling ...............................................................................................................................13 4.12 Health-hospitals-pharmaceucs...........................................................................................13 4.13 Communicaons and broadcasng ......................................................................................14 5. City dweller parcipaon..............................................................................................................14 Final Notes:.......................................................................................................................................14 
1. Introduction
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The concept of One Small Town in Parys is based on the Ubuntu principles of contribuonalism1 where every member of the community contributes their me, skills, and talents to the benefit of all members of the community. The result of these cooperaons is that infinite abundance, knowledge, and breakthroughs are achieved. 
In a community where members produce according to their needs and for the benefit of everyone in the community, money is no longer needed. What would you spend your money on when everything you want, and need is freely available within the community? Why would you need to earn money when you do not need to buy anything? What would you need to invest in? 
Freedom from money is freedom from slavery – abundance is created by the people for the people and NOT for the greed of a few. Slaves create earnings without gaining benefits. Furthermore, security based on money creates division, anxiety, and suspicion. Instead, unity is built through the voluntary cooperaon of all community members with the aim to equally share in prosperity. The need of a few is never above the need of others – if it’s not good for everyone, it’s no good at all! 
“Freedom is not our right – it is our gi from our Divine Creator. No one has the right to take  it away or enslave us in any way or manner”. Michael Tellinger, 3 November 2010. 
The current society insist that we ‘become’ a profession. However, people are already unique with their own special gis and talents. Instead of slaving away in a forced profession, bakers are free to bake, engineers are free to engineer, farmers are free to farm, etc. The God-given gis and talents can be passionately applied to be er the lives of everyone in the community instead of working individually to earn an income in a career that promises that “one day, somewhere in the future, you may succeed if only you work harder and longer”. 
The average working hours in South Africa is eight (8) hours per day. In One Small Town, members contribute their me, skills, and talents for three (3) hours per week. If a thousand (1000) people contribute their me and skills three (3) mes per week, three thousand (3000) labour-hours per week is created. Consequently, one hundred and forty-three (143) people is available every day to work on projects created by the community. Every member only contributes the three (3) hours per week which leaves members me to pursue their hobbies or a end a training course or transfer their own skills to those who want to learn from them, etc.  
When something is not available in the community, members decide if they want to start producing it or if they can get it from other Small Towns. People of the community, therefore, decide what they will do or build or create. Only the imaginaon of people will limit their ability to design or manufacture what is needed within their community.  
In a world filled with empty promises of prosperity that is achieved through compeon, division, and inequality, One Small Town stands in a stark contrast. Unity in One Small Town is achieved by embracing diversity, celebrang unique talents and gis of all members, and offering equal opportunies to contribute and share in the benefits created by all members. One Small Town is a community by the people for the people.  
1.1 The principles of One Small Town 
The common law principles of One Small Town are: 
  
1 Informaon in this document is based on the book by Michael Tellinger, “Ubuntu Contribuonalism: a blueprint  for human prosperity”. This is a ‘living-document’ that can be altered as the complete vision for One Small Town,  Parys becomes firm. 
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1. Do not kill or harm others; 
2. Do not steal or take what is not yours; 
3. Conduct yourself honourably in all that you do and say. 
There are also general principles that describe One Small Town: 
1. If it is not good for everyone, it is no good at all – this principle includes the producon of food, the manufacturing of products, the educaon of children, the training of adults and access to energy sources. 
2. Only out of unity can infinite diversity be a ained – Embracing diversity of people, skills, talents, contribuons, etc. ulmately leads to unity. 
3. We are the 99% - this principle indicates that the minority or the people in the community decides for themselves what they want to produce, manufacture, etc. and not any individual ‘leader’ or corporaon. 
4. Every member of the community contributes to the community – Only members who contribute share in the benefits of the community. 
5. No money – Money is not needed because everything is shared equally within the community. 6. No barter / trading – Everything that is produced or manufactured belongs to the community and not individuals to barter or trade. 
7. No value is a ached to anything greater than anything else – Every effort and contribuon is equally valuable.  
1.2 Values of One Small Town 
Values that are derived from the principles of One Small Town includes: 
1. Equality 
2. Unity 
3. Mutual care 
4. Hope  
5. Respect 
6. Integrity 
7. Cooperaon  
8. Inclusivity 
9. Freedom 
10. Fulfilment 
2. Implementation of One Small Town in Parys 
2.1 Council of Elders 
The Ubuntu blueprint suggests that a Council of Elders be created. Elders will exist of thirteen (13) members – twelve (12) members around one (1) Ambassador. 
Suggesons2 to consider selecng the twelve (12) members: 
  
2Suggesons indicated by italics is based on the Ubuntu principle but added by writer for consideraon by the  Council of Elders.
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1. A farmer or an agricultural specialist3: This person is needed for guidance in agricultural projects as well as reaching agreements with exisng farmers. 
2. An inventor or an engineer: This person guides the manufacturing process from the designing phase to the final product. 
3. Water specialist: A person who understands the current water plant and filtraon systems can be valuable and will also guide any implementaon and maintenance of such systems. 4. Energy specialist: A broader knowledge of current alternave energy sources will be a benefit and can assist inventors or engineers to develop a unique soluon for Parys. 
5. Researcher or Scienst: This person needs to assist other specialist in research or be able to do scienfic research on alternave products. 
6. Educaon specialist: There are a wide range of educaon opportunies in the One Small Town iniave. This person will therefore need to have an overall passion for educaon and be capable of creang courses. Courses can be created with the input of schoolteachers, trade masters, etc. This person has the responsibility of finding great teachers, appoinng school-teachers, and appoinng master teachers who do advanced skills training requested by the community. 
7. Security specialist: A wide range of knowledge about security, emergency protocols, and crisis management will be an advantage, especially in the inial phases. A good knowledge of current laws will be an advantage. This person is also responsible to establish emergency and support services that is filled with highly skilled individuals who want to parcipate for the love of the work. 
8. Financial specialist: The suggeson of creang a ‘people’s bank’ indicates a need for financial control. This person needs to have the experience necessary to clearly give feedback to the community regarding any financial implicaons to ensure transparency. Responsibilies will include budgeng of projects, allocaon of funds to projects, and weekly or monthly reports. 
9. Administrator: A person with strong administraon skills is needed to ensure that informaon from all others can be easily obtained. This posion may be replaced with the creaon of an intranet where all members will have immediate access to all informaon and can monitor progress of various projects, etc. themselves. 
10. Media specialist: This person will create, direct, and implement media soluons to the community. Internet, intranet, and alternave communicaon soluons will be an advantage. This person will also take the lead in PR campaigns.  
11. Tourism: Social and cultural acvies are important in One Small Town. This person needs to be able to reach agreements with arsts or crasmen in Parys and implement an Arst Gallery with addional training opportunies in Parys. 
12. Counsellor / ethical advisor4: This person has the responsibility to provide ethical guidance and good pracce to ensure that all members benefit by decisions made and that no research occurs that is harmful to the people of the community or the environment. The person will also be responsible to mediate during diffi cult discussions, brainstorming sessions and reaching mutually beneficial agreements between pares. Guidance can be provided to the educaon department who may want to incorporate moral standards in developing the youth. This person will also work closely with the development of the holisc Health Centre to ensure a holisc approach. 
13. Representave of the Tumahole or Schonkenville community. 
  
3 The word ‘expert’ is replaced by ‘specialist’. There is not one person who has all the knowledge regarding a  specific topic. Any person selected must therefore be a person who are open to ideas and suggesons from  others around them and who welcomes the cooperaon between members to find unique soluons within the  community.  
4 This suggeson is based on the future development of ‘Church involvement’ as adversed on the One Small  Town website. 
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2.2 Responsibilities of the Council of Elders 
The Council of Elders are the true representave body of the community. Every suggested project5 is approved by the Council of Elders. The responsibilies of the Council of Elders include: 
1. Establish a ‘People’s bank’: This forms the inial cornerstone for the implementaon of projects. Council of Elders needs to determine a small monthly fee that can be used for maintenance or improvements during the transion period (Any and all monthly fees will fall away, and everything will become free).  
2. Avoid an-contribuonalism: No toleraon of any vocal or praccal a empt to sabotage plans for the establishment of One Small Town implementaon. 
3. Council of Elders is responsible for all ma ers of the community. This includes legal aspects, guidance, and advice to the community. This will require a decentralised governing structure so that communies have absolute control over their own well-being if the common law principles are upheld. The Council of Elders may ask people who connually disrupt the peace and tranquillity of the community to leave the community at request of the community. 
4. A centralised Council of Elders must be created that represents a chosen leader from each community. 
Suggeson: See secon of One Small Town legal system. The Ubuntu blueprint refers to the implementaon of the African Tribal structures and the establishment of Councils of Elders that represent each community. This presents a problem of different communies living in a united community. The above layout of Elders is based on the specialised needs that will need to be addressed in One Small Town. It may be less complicated if the above suggeson of the twelve Elders is kept as is but that it includes the leaders of various communies. This will enable the community as a whole to make informed decisions about all members but also integrate leaders of various communies. This may however mean that the Council of Elders will then exist of one (1) Ambassador, twelve (12) Elders, and representaves of all the different communies. 
5. Develop new supply chain based on the true needs of the community. Ensure that all goods are of the best possible quality so that it can last as long as possible and do not need to be replaced or fixed.  
6. Responsible to provide the tools to deliver, build, or grow whatever the community express as a need. 
7. Price regulaon: Council of Elders must ensure that prices of foods and goods are not increased for the lure of money. Money is only needed to travel or when items are brought into the community that is not currently available in the Small Town. Inially, members will pay a fracon for food and goods unl it becomes free.  
Produce is sold to the community (those who did not contribute their three (3) hours) at a very low price. Excess produce is sold at a slightly higher price on the Farmer’s market to outsiders and neighbouring towns but sll at a price that is considerably cheaper than what they can buy in their own towns or supermarkets. Funds raised through this sale gets generated back to produce more and to constantly expand producons to other foods and products. 
This formula must be expanded to other areas of industry such as wood and metal products, building materials, arts and cras, etc. Use the same 33%-66% principle of sharing with other arsans in different sectors of industry. 
8. Prevent exploitaon of people and resources: While neighbouring towns needs to be treated as brothers and sisters, the Council of Elders must ensure that no individual or company can buy all the products and goods at a reduced price and then sell it at a high price. Council of Elders to 
  
5 A project has a short-term financial aspect but moves towards long-term soluons for self-sustainability. 
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ensure that the outside do not get hold of producon factories to produce items for resell outside the community for their own enrichment. All external sales to outside towns, tourists, or anyone else to be done at Farmer’s market or specially arranged events. This will generate regular income used outside the community to acquire materials and goods not yet produced in the community and replenish materials for projects. 
All goods and produces must be produced out of necessity of the community to the benefit of the community and not out of GREED.  
Produce what is reusable, recyclable, biodegradable and as praccal as possible with long lasng durability. 
Suggeson: An agreement can be made that all products must be sold at the Farmer’s market or be available at the Community store. This way no one can approach a factory directly. A further suggeson is to use paper tokens within the Farmer’s markets. This will ensure that there is no pressure to further reduce prices and illustrate the concept of the One Small Town token. Money will then only be handled at kiosks where money is exchanged for paper tokens that can be used to purchase goods and products.  
9. Regulate producon: Three (3) mes as much as required by community needs to be produced. Advice must be gained to determine the quanes to be produced according to the three (3) mes principle. Council of Elders responsible for distribung and supplying goods between towns and across the country. 
Produce according to requirements of community. 
Produce to support neighbouring towns in need. 
Produce to share goods, products, foods, and services between communies. 10. Regulate contribuons: Members who cannot contribute their me during the inial phase may financially contribute. Council of elders need to determine cash contribuon which needs to be equal to labour contribuon. If no contribuon is made, no benefit can be given.  People must be allowed to choose the area where they want to contribute. If no choice is offered, Council of Elders may allocate people to various tasks based on their ability OR according to the pressing needs in the community at a specific me.  
11. Reach Agreements: with farmers to use land. 
12. Ensure that every factory or workshop has a master cras person who oversees the acvity. Skill transfer occurs through Master teacher to apprence and includes praccal experience and parng of knowledge to children as part of their educaon. 
13. Establish: Communal dining hall where a good meal a day can be provided for the hungry, the homeless, and the poor. The number of meals will increase as the system gets refined to provide extra meals. 
To qualify for meals: Three (3) hours per week contribuon. The aged can contribute their experience and knowledge in almost every area.  
Funds for the kitchen: Funds can be raised by recycling of rubbish dump, agricultural acvity of the community, income from selling products and services or the interim community account (People’s bank). 
14. Establish: community bakery. This needs to be upgraded to provide breads daily to all people at a low cost. All kinds of nutrious bread need to be available which can also be sold at the Farmer’s market, restaurants, and ‘exported’ to neighbouring towns. Depending on the situaon, these breads will be very cheap or free to the community.  
15. Establish: producon of building materials. 
16. Establish: basic effecve metal welding workshop to assist in creang the tools required to produce goods and produce. 
17. Establish: laws according to the needs of the community. 
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18. Public transparency: All proposals, decisions, and acons must be clearly communicated to the community.  
3. Implementation phase (2 years) 
The two (2) year goals include: 
1. Free water: Specialists who knows the natural treatment of purifying and energising water (no chemicals) are required. The informaon of effecve micro-organisms (EM) is readily available and it costs almost nothing to brew. 
2. Free energy: electricity, lights, heat, gas, methanol, etc. Alternave soluons include solar, hydro electric, wind, geothermal, magnec, gas, ethanol, methane (bio-gas), and dal moon. Suggeson: With Parys close to the Vaal river, hydro-electric is a good opon. A watermill was previously used to supply electricity to the Parys community. 
3. Free housing: This includes an extensive building material producon that makes use of natural materials like clay, straw, thatch, wood, stone, etc. These materials can be used to build houses, factories, or agricultural structures. Addionally, it provides opportunies for skills development. Mines or quarries may provide free or cheap stones and sand. Arsts must be allowed to assist with the creaon of buildings so that they can add arsc, creave flavour to buildings. 
Wood from forestry companies can be used to build log houses, furniture, doors, windows, etc. A sawmill and wood factory can be established that provides opportunies for carpenters to build products for the community and training for new carpenters.  
Establish a basic effecve metal welding workshop for the basic manufacturing and producon of a variety of metal goods needed by the community. 
Suggeson: A proposal was raised during meeng that recycled products can be used as building materials. Recycled plasc can be used to create moulds to cast bricks from other recycled material as well as to create plasc pipes.  
4. Free food: opmisaon of agricultural land. Give support to farmers to produce organic non-GMO food. Ulise any idle municipal land. Reach agreements with farmers to use their land. Produce to include: dairy (milk, cream, bu er, cheese); free range chickens (eggs, meat); growth tunnels for vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants; bee hives and bees (one bee hive gives approximately 15- 30Kg honey per year; fruits, nuts, and citrus orchards; bo led water. 
5. Free educaon: creang alternave educaon system. 
4. Plan of action for various sectors. 
4.1 Structure of communities 
- Members of community should never be in compeon or conflict. 
- Only in the act of unity can infinite diversity and abundance on all levels of human endeavour be  achieved. 
- Communies can be filled with the most breathtaking designs and architecture that is currently  reserved only for the rich and powerful. For inspiraon, visit h p://www.new-earth-project.org/ 
4.2 Community projects 
Every member of the community is required to parcipate. No member is looked down upon, there is no weak link in the society and no member is placed above other members. Parcipaon includes sweeping the street and keeping public places clean, removing garbage, etc. 
4.2.1 Initial community projects will include: 
- Upgrade and restructuring of roads, parks, schools, and sport grounds to benefit all.
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- Plant trees, including fruit and nut trees, along all roads, schools, and parks. This will provide ongoing supply of food in mes of crisis. 
- Create a plant food forest in public areas, parks, and other places. 
- Plant seedlings for own and external use. 
- Every household should be given fruit and nut trees to plant.  
- Proposals during the meeng included the planng of gardens on sidewalks, reparaon of potholes, cleaning cemeteries, open libraries where the aged can read to the young (suggeson: this may also be done during the alternave school educaon) and garden in a box. 
4.2.2 Continual community projects will include: 
- Mowing lawn in public parks, dealing with sewage removal or conversion which creates free energy, transporng materials, fixing the streetlights, planng seeds, looking aer the aged, etc.  - Every member will be able to undergo any kind of training or addional learning at any stage. Master teachers appointed by the community will be able to do advanced skills training. 
4.3 The One Small Town legal system 
4.3.1 Common law principles 
The One Small Town legal system is based on the common law principles: 
1. Do not kill or harm another. 
2. Do not steal or take what is not yours. 
3. Conduct yourself honourably in all that you do and say. 
4.3.2 Further Ubuntu blueprint suggestions include: 
- Reintroducon of African tribal structures consisng of a Council of Elders to give guidance and advice to communies voted and appointed by the people from each community. - Council of Elders are yearly voted on by the community or as necessary. - All Councils to adopt the fundamental principles of Ubuntu. 
- Councils of Elders to deal with all ma ers of the community, including legal, guidance and advice to the community. 
- Common law and unity consciousness must be maintained which means that every acon should contribute to the greater benefit of all in the community. 
- Police, army, security forces may be morphed into support groups that serve during disasters like fire, flooding, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc. They will then change into emergency service groups. 
4.4 Energy and electricity 
All exisng cables, transformers and networks were paid by the people in the community. As it belongs to the community, the community needs to take control over this and connect their own new source of energy supply.  
- Decentralise all energy supply. 
- Every river can be ulised to generate hydro power for nearby towns and villages. Hydro turbines became very advanced, and a few turbines placed in rivers at strategic points will not be visible nor will it create any kind of environmental polluon, while providing uninterrupted power to towns. The cost of the energy is almost free. Reminder: Parys used to make use of a watermill that provided the town with electricity. The watermill is sll in Parys. 
- Sustainable gas during energy crisis. Sewage plants can be converted into methane gas (natural gas) producing centres. Chemical engineers can enhance methane generang process without great cost to community. Gas can provide heat, light, cooking, baking, hot water, refrigeraon, etc. Pig farms and dairies can also be used for generang methane.
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- Perpetual moon generators, magnec and other devices can be invesgated. Invite inventors to share their invenons. 
- Sound and frequency can be used as energy – require assistance from informed sciensts.  
4.5 Education & learning 
An alternave educaon system must be iniated immediately so that children can learn meaningful skills for life and express their natural talents. Educaon is about preparing children for life which needs praccal knowledge of how to create things, build things, fix things, and think outside of the box. The suggeson here is not a complete rejecon of the current school curriculum but rather to reject any polical ideological teachings within the curriculum and to integrate the school curriculum with praccal skills and knowledge. Inspiraon can be found at www.thrivemovement.com. Suggeson: An Ubuntu principle is ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. This requires inter-generaonal parcipaon in the educaon of children. Allow the aged to part their wisdom and for children to learn from the aged. 
Informaon can be captured and stored on computers or durable technology that is available for children to search and learn. This will require a comprehensive educaonal in informaon database of all master teachers of all communies. Suggeson: A creaon of a community Intranet may ease the capturing and access of this informaon by the enre community. Only community members will have access through their QR code. 
- Create day-care and learning centres where children from an early age begin to explore while learning important things in life opposed to the current system.  
- Set up effecve literacy classes for children and adults by the members of the community. 
4.5.1 Young children 
- Provide healthcare and the best nutrion possible at the community day-care. This must be  managed by people who are highly specialised in nutrion and healthcare and appointed by the  community. 
- Skilled course developers must create educaonal material that does not place restricons of  any kind on children. 
- Early learning may occur through interacve games or innovave technologies (which may sll  need to be developed) with the aim to play and have fun while learning. This includes a variety  of toys, books, instruments and technology like interacve video and informaon programmes  that are shown in a controlled environment while children are sll too small and too young to  
move around too much. The aim is to give basic knowledge about a large variety of subjects  before learning on a praccal level. 
- Give special a enon to arsc skills such as drawing, painng, musical instruments and allow  experiences with different skills to acvate their talents. Creavity develops crical thinking. - Teach basic skills like reading and wring as well as to love and respect fellowman and nature.  Children need to learn about soil, water, air, sunlight; how things grow and why. Children need  to learn about animals, plants, and insects; how to plant and grow seeds; where food comes  from and how its grown or made. Children need to learn about compost and earthworms, the  cycle of nature so that their curiosity is ignited with as much diversity as possible. - Age 6+: Children can start to parcipate in short half day workshops and hands-on praccal  acvies to learn the skills in greater detail. This must include as many different acvies as  possible with a variety of skills to keep their minds smulated. Visit as many master teachers as  possible to smulate their imaginaon.
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- Introduce children from as early as they can walk to yoga and maral arts to provide physical strength. 
- Early age: children love to watch people do different things and everything excites them. Because they oen want to parcipate or imitate, support must be given that allows them to do so. - Children need to become involved in planng, growing seeds, and food, taking care of the young plants such as vegetables, herbs, and medicinal plants; and trees such as fruits and nuts. - Encourage parcipaon in a variety of sports, cultural, and recreaonal acvies, especially musical instruments, painng, and sculpng. 
- Encourage children to come up with creave soluons to challenges in the community and if it could benefit the communies, the Council of Elders may implement their soluons. 
4.5.2 Older children 
- The duraon of the experienal, hands-on learning and workshops will increase from half day to a full day, from several days to a week, to two (2) weeks, etc.  
- 12-year-old children have a pre y good idea of what they are really good at, what drives them, excites them and what they want to do and how they want to contribute in life.  - 12-14 years: Hands-on learning and workshops increase from one (1) week to a full month or more. 
- Reduce the number of exposures to skills so that they become align with their abilies, skills, and preferences. 
- Never force any child to do or learn anything – children must have the freedom to pursue what a racts them. 
- 14-16 years: Children now have a few chosen skills that they connue to master. These can be seen as mini-internships with master teachers during which their skills are truly refined. These skills can include anything from mathemacs and farming to sewing and violin, etc. - Every child needs to spend hours teaching the younger children. 
- 16+: Children do their final so-called internship of their preferred subject with their master teacher. Once the master is no longer able to teach the student (who reached their highest level of learning), the master appoints the student as master teacher. 
4.6 Farming and agriculture 
The main objecve of food producon is that the community will produce what they need and NOT what bankers or policians or corporaons allow them to produce. Many farmers face bankruptcy and desperately need to remain producve. Addionally, having a community on their property makes their property extremely diffi cult to sell on an aucon by the banks.  
4.6.1 Agriculture 
- The community produces according to their own need but also for those who may not be able to do so. 
- Support farmers: support can be given by establishing research labs that will provide scienfic tools, treatments, and seeds that are not genecally modified.  
- Support farmers: support can be given by manufacturing fuel, tools, machinery, equipment, and ferlisers that famers may not be able to afford.  
- Support farmers: support farmers with effecve micro-organisms (EM) which is a powerful pro bioc that can be used to purify large tracts of polluted water but is sll sensive enough so that babies can drink it. This can be brewed naturally and be used for soil and water purificaon.  
- Ulise water that has been energised through the acve process of nature or energised by those who know how to.
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- Invesgate how to create specific natural condions that will grow crops and animals at several  higher-than-normal rate with basic nutrients or sound and light manipulaon. - Find specialists in natural and organic farming techniques and specialists in the field of  biomimicry to enhance the quality and quanty of all farming and agricultural produce. - Specialist to train new farmers to diversify enre agricultural sector to areas that were  previously thought to be not financially viable. Training is needed in all related areas of farming  and agriculture, such as: medicine, transport and deliver; packaging, storage, etc.  - Find a specialist in treang pests and disease in crops and livestock who make use of alternave  techniques. 
- Invesgate natural plants such as hemp, plants or herbs that is used for tradional healing. Train specialised farmers to grow this.  
- Plant invasive species of trees like wa le to manufacture wooden items.  - Compost can be made from cow dung and other organic material. 
- Use discarded wood for mulch or wood chips.  
- Previous meeng suggesons raised: creaon of a garden centre. 
4.6.2 Farming 
- Reach agreements with farmers in the community who want to parcipate by offering their land for the benefit of the community. 
- Reach agreements with landowners who may not be farmers but want to ulise their land or offer to use factories that are standing vacant. 
- Idenfy members and those from the community who want to contribute their me and skills to work on farms and factories – three (3) hours per week only. 
- Raise funds from the community from monthly contribuons to provide tools, materials, seeds, fuel, etc. 
- Request farmers to provide their knowledge in farming and to train people who work on farms for free – as part of their contribuon. 
- The agreement with farmers: farmers retain 33% of the harvest and the community receives 66% of the harvest. The benefit to farmers is that there is no layout or costs while they sll retain as much as they would normally generate on their own, perhaps more.  
- Farmers are free to do with their 33% share as they please, for example: they can sell their shares on the open market to generate cash for survival during the transional phase. - The 66% of the community will be distributed to members who parcipated and who made financial contribuons. 
- The rest of the produce is sold at very low prices to the rest of the community and those who did not contribute, who will immediately experience the benefit. 
- Any excess produce is sold on the Farmer’s market to outsiders and neighbouring towns at a slightly higher price but a price that is sll cheaper than what they can buy in their own towns and supermarket. This will create immediate a racon to surrounding towns and a need to develop the same model.  
- Funds raised on the Farmer’s market get generated back to produce more and to constantly expand producons to other foods and products.  
4.7 Forestry 
Forestry is a great provider of work or acvity and includes environmental management, wood, paper, clothing, food, etc. Addionally, it can provide wood to build homes, furniture and provide for other acvies and products. 
- Forestry is a living and renewable resource.
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- Forestry benefits arsts, crasmen, arsans, builders, designers, architects, etc.  - Explore new sustainable and eco-friendly alternaves for manufacturing paper, example hemp. - Find new soluons for polluon created by papermills and associated industries. - Find an ecological specialist to monitor and improve management. 
- NO exporng of wood or paper or products made by the forestry project unless all the needs of all the people in the community are met. Even though all the income and benefits form exports belong to the community, it is NOT ideal to export as the forestry belongs to the people. 
4.8 Industry and manufacturing 
Industry and manufacturing will include building materials, wooden products, metal workshops, ceramics, fabrics, shoemaking, etc. 
- There will be NO exporng for profit of any minerals or raw materials and the community will only produce what is needed by the people and to be used in the diverse acvies in their own communies. 
- Producon line: Provide raw materials to a growing number of secondary manufacturers that make more specialised items who supply the makers of even more specialised items, etc. This entails the producon of items according to the many different manufacturing steps. 
- The queson is what goes into building trains, roads, helicopters, computers, lights, radios, speakers, books, reading glasses, fridges, heaters, spanners, door handles, drills, wheelbarrows, lawnmowers, pencils, printers, phones, etc. and how can the community manufacture the different parts.  
- Every manufacturer gets what they need from those who manufacture the components, who get their materials from those who make the materials, etc. 
- This manufacturing process will require accurate and skilful management of the supply chain and offer many people opportunies to get involved. 
- If a new factory is needed, it will be designed by the best architects (available) to the best specificaon possible; built by the best engineers, using the best available building materials to deliver the best quality products imaginable which will last for as long as possible. 
- Create a clothing factory where tailors can inspire one another, where material is dyed, etc. - Create a shoe factory – use leather and tyres for new innovave, strong, praccal, and lasng shoes.  
- Build a small smokeless factory for converng tyres into charcoal and generang energy for heat. - Previous meeng suggesons raised: brick making, ma ress manufacturing, soap manufacturing. - Suggeson: small business owners may be contacted with the offer to expand their business 
through the One Small Town iniave of 33%-66%. This will significantly increase any turn-around me on producon. Further opportunies are that One Small Town can manufacture any parts that they are currently purchasing from outside of the community at a high cost, especially parts that are labour-intensive. 
4.9 Arts and Culture 
Arts and hobbies are important in the One Small Town as it provides opportunies to build unity and smulate the soul. 
- Create a well-planned recreaonal area for the promoon of arts and culture, including a well stocked art studio for painters, sculptors, etc. 
- Open an art gallery to display arts, cras, and handmade goods of the community. - Encourage arsts to create works of art that are displayed along the streets to beaufy the One Small Town.
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- Establish a music school with as many instruments as possible and give students the plaorm to perform to the community and tourists. 
4.10 Tourism and Hospitality 
The Ubuntu blueprint suggests various ways to impact tourism in the One Small Town. 
- Tourists prefer to become involved in the communies they visit, for example cherry picking for  fun or opportunies to learn new things. Provide opportunies for tourist to become involved in  a multude of hands-on acvies such as: milking cows, making cheese, ploughing land, planng seedlings, creang ceramics, creang po ery, art, design fabrics, making shoes, feeding the aged and orphans or building eco-friendly homes. 
- Build beauful a racve accommodaon for tourists and make them available at low cost to  a ract tourists.  
- Promote working farms as tourist a racons. 
- Turn the town into a haven for tourists through the arsc nature of the community.  - Ulise the river as major a racon. 
- Promote fishing acvies and compeons. 
- Promote all acvies and a racons through a well-planned ongoing PR campaign. - Suggeson: acquire parcipaon of the various tourist a racons in and around Parys through  agreements. 
4.11 Recycling 
- Sewage can be used to produce ferliser. 
- Any new synthec materials must be developed to be biodegradable and renewable. The input of specialists is required here. 
- Everything used or created is to be recyclable or at a minimum, the design must ensure that it can be converted to something else that can be used in the community. 
- Recycling includes: packaging, food, agriculture, industry, technology, construcon, educaon, healthcare, etc.  
4.12 Health-hospitals-pharmaceutics 
Healing in the One Small Town is focused holiscally and includes food, plants, and healing  therapies. Suggeson: holisc6 healing needs to include soul care and counselling. As this is  voluntary based, it needs to be at least offered as an opon that can be chosen if needed by  members of the community. 
- These health centres can be used as training centres. 
- Health centres need to offer birthing centres. 
- Independent medical sciensts and researchers need to be appointed and supported with the  most advanced equipment and technology. A ach research laboratory to Healing centres for  ongoing research. Share any new discoveries with the people of South Africa. - Promote work of tradional healers and alternave healers. 
- Culvate and produce plants and herbs to support tradional healers, homeopaths, etc. - Support vibraonal and frequency healing. 
- Support the development and use of Stem Cell treatment7. 
- Communies have the freedom to determine what they need around healing, based on  experience and agreed by the Council of Elders. 
  
6 Holisc healing normally refers to body, mind, and soul. 
7 Please Note: Dr Gouws and Dr Bell already do stem cell treatment and research in Parys.
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- Previous meeng suggesons raised: the culvaon of kefir, microgreens, sprouts. 
4.13 Communications and broadcasting 
All the technology and installaon of the Telkom network was paid for by the taxpayer and therefore belongs to the people of the community. Furthermore, once cell phone towers are up and able to transmit, the cost of delivery is virtually none. All airwaves and frequencies belong to the people; however, microwave frequencies are harmful to people. 
- Appoint the most knowledgeable sciensts and researchers to provide people with their own informaon. 
- Suggest the removal of cell towers and replace them with an alternave for community communicaon. 
- Suggeson: a specialist needs to invesgate the feasibility of implementaon, etc. There are many suggesons by the Ubuntu blueprint that may be able to assist in a transioning period. See page 290 for further informaon.  
5. City dweller participation 
Members who work in the city and who are therefor unable to contribute their three (3) hours per week on community farms or community acvies, may contribute as follows: 
- Those with specialised skills and talents may become crical in the future.  - Community talent exchange. 
- Monthly or regular cash contribuons that are pooled to connuously expand the abundance of goods produced. The inial focus of the funds will be on the water supply and food producon as food and water have become unaffordable and unsafe.  
Final Notes: 
This document was mainly created to capture the ideas of the Ubuntu Concept in a logical and praccal order. Please regard this document as a living document that can be adjusted by the Council of Elders to the needs of the community. This means the document can grow and change as needed. 
The hope is that this document can be used to draw up acon plans, smulate ideas and encourage unity.
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