Newsletter| About 48 parties will contest the elections today. All exist because they believe they can provide leadership to the masses. These are the qualities we need from them, writes Kgositoi Sedupane
About 48 parties will contest the elections on Wednesday. All exist because they believe they can provide leadership to the masses. But the question is whether they can provide inspirational leadership.
Mbeki said he could not electioneer for the ANC in the past because of the wrong that was happening in the party. Such wrongs were mirrored in the government, too. At the High Level Event II on Leadership for Africa in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 21 2014, Mbeki submitted that leaders needed to be frank with one another about the wrong things that fellow leaders were doing. He said there was a need for a truthful self-assessment to produce the leadership that Africa wanted and needed.
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