A Nation in Crisis

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Paulus Zulu. A Nation in Crisis

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A NATION

IN CRISIS

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At the third level, authority is sacralised: leaders assume a sacred position of power in the political domain and, once sacred are beyond moral reproach.

At the fourth level, and especially in Africa, the political leadership demonstrates a quest for a royal historical identity. Credentials in the struggle for liberation bestow this identity in the case of South Africa and probably elsewhere in Africa and in the world where leaders assume the status of icons: Nkrumah, Kenyatta, Nyerere, Mandela and Lincoln to name a few. Liberation movements possess a royal aura and the leader tones it down or rises above it in humility, in accordance with their personality. Unfortunately, the humble leaders of the Kenyatta, Nyerere and Mandela era are creatures of the distant past in the current hubris of the political elite where the politics of power and material acquisition appear to be the order of the day.

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