A few weeks ago, I spent most of my Sunday morning at an ANCYL Johannesburg Region emergency general council, which had been called by the ANCYL provincial leadership, here in Gauteng. After all the drama and tension of the emergency RGC, as so often happens, we all went out for drinks and spent time socialising [...]
Tag Archives: Leadership
Anthem for Independence
Year’s rolls into decades As the bones of our forefathers decay with the hopes and dreams once upheld … Selfishness and greed feed on what is left Fame is now bestowed upon the confident thief who rob the souls of masses, of soothing dream We are free! So they say They sing words of sweetness [...]
The leadership gap – A South Africa we could have
One of the blessings of growing up in South Africa in the mid to late nineteen nineties is that I grew up in a country that was truly alive with possibility. Mine was a generation that did not really directly experience the repressive laws of the apartheid era. My memories of the apartheid era are [...]
Thinkers, Dreamers and Doers
Brooks Atkinson an American theatre critic who worked for the New York Times described the reasons for America’s greatness. He stated, “This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who [...]
