Newsletter| Kingsley Makhubela writes about lessons he learnt under principled and humble leaders such as Oliver Tambo in exile and why SA needs to inculcate a culture of morality and servant leadership among those who occupy senior state positions
Kingsley Makhubela writes about lessons learnt under principled and humble leaders and why SA needs to inculcate a culture of morality and servant leadership among those who occupy senior state positions
When I left my home in Meadowlands, Soweto, in 1980 at the age of 19, I belonged to the ANC underground structures and was the chairman of the southern Transvaal region of the Congress of South African Students. He had the rare attributes of both strategic and operational skill, and was able to mobilise international solidarity for the liberation struggle from the East and West, not only for South Africa, but for the entire African continent.
The systems we had in the ANC at the time, and the leadership Tambo displayed, contained no greed, and no environment was created for it to thrive in.
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