South Africa suffers a crisis of leadership. Yet history offers many an example of spectacular, authentically African leaders, untouched by white influence. Max du Preez has unearthed new data on visionary leaders Maqoma, Mohlomi and especially Moshoeshoe, who founded a peaceful nation through persuasion and prosperity. Moshoeshoe, embracing diversity and new technologies, knew that nothing threatens a nation more than poverty. An absorbing and timely look at what African leaders can be.
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Max du Preez. Tafelberg Short: A chief is a chief by the grace of his people
A Chief is a Chief by the Grace of His People. Once we had Leaders
A monumental failure
A savage prince and a formidable adversary
The teacher and his student
Peace is my sister
Born great
The boy called At Ease with the World
The red dust from the east
The democrat
The super diplomat
Lumela, lekhoa!
Cutting the land
Morena e moholo
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When we do explore the leadership qualities, styles and vision of some of southern Africa’s kings, chiefs and political philosophers of yesterday, we find that present leaders’ excuses of colonialism, apartheid, Western imperialism, capitalism, white intransigence and neoliberalism become very thin indeed.
1. Paul Kruger: The Memoirs of Paul Kruger (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902), p 69
