South Africa has been a country without a leader for some time now, but today we heard we’re without a president too. Maybe it is inevitable that a man lose his leadership position when it has become evident he can no longer lead. In terms of this country, my country, leadership has seriously been lacking for too long.
A leader leads by example. A leader leads in directions beneficial to those he or she leads, and not in directions that seem popular on the day. A leader leads where followers do not always want to, but he or she leads because it is the right way to go. A leader sets aside personal choices, keeps away from corrupting paths, and leaves family, friends, and past favours behind to lead to the benefit of those who follow. When a leader no longer leads, others will take up the lead, and when that happens, the followers split in various groupings, turn aside from the original path, and start to square off against other followers who go a different route. This turns any leader’s original foundations into nothing more than quicksand.
Sadly for Thabo Mbeki, he became such a leader, and today he has nothing left other than a title that the ANC wants to strip him of. Nothing he can really do about this, since so many others have taken his leadership from him months ago.
In South Africa, the new clique who led this country recklessly these past 8 years, and who set themselves in secure and unchallengeable positions in their own eyes, are about to be replaced too. Unbelievably the entire cabinet bar a few, have ‘announced’ their intentions today after the ANC’s announcement to recall Thabo Mbeki. ‘Their intentions???’ These are people who seem to forget that when the president who elects them leaves, they too must leave (regardless their intention or will) and re -apply for their positions if they wish to remain in office. The new president will then review all candidates for that position, and select his or her choice. Our minister of finance is so sure of his position that he stated he will not leave, but stay on. How can he make such a statement when he technically will be out of his job on the day Mr Mbeki is officially relieved of his duty as president? These people are so self assured of their powerbases that they don’t really seem to care what our constitution says about the matter.
Anyway, so we are a leaderless nation hoping for a new president, though we will apparently have a temporary president by Tuesday, 23rd of September 08. So here is my suggestion on this matter, that we all spend the next few months praying prior to the April 09 elections for a man or woman to stand up and be elected as president and lead!
Tags: 23 September 2008, leader, mbeki, president, south africa, thabo
November 21, 2008 at 5:34 pm |
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