Like many of you, I love this country. For those of you who think you don’t, or don’t know if you do, when you get to that really honest place inside, you realize you too love this place, or at worst, you want to love it, be loyal to it, experience that special feeling of […]
Cape Town – Ex-convict and president of the Patriotic Alliance Gayton McKenzie said Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema is “the biggest thief I ever met”. The letter in full: Dear Julius Malema, I wronged people in this country two decades ago when I took part in heinous crimes. I have been trying to repay […]
Winston Churchill uttered these wise words: “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that […]
So it seems President Zuma may be re-elected at Mangaung this week. Should this happen we will once again be reminded of his resilience and ability to withstand resistance and opposition, aided by ANC culture and a picture or agenda that does not seem to be well communicated to or understood by ordinary South Africans […]
During a two and a half hour in depth conversation with me recently, Julius Malema made the following statement: “I was elected last year in June, after serving the first three years. There’s never been an interaction between me and President Zuma, just the two of us, for almost four years, on this or that […]
In analyzing Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe’s leadership approach, many have referred to him as a uniting alternative to President Jacob Zuma. It would be amiss of this national leadership platform to not attempt some form of leadership review between these two men, especially after they both accepted an invitation to talk to the Business Report […]
President Zuma is on a roll! Watching him engage the business community on SABC2 Tuesday morning one could sense he is in a good space. This is healthy for our country because when he makes the right calls we all benefit; should he succeed we all succeed; should he fail, we all fail. Anyone that […]
Following on from last week’s article on our leadership conversation with President Zuma, after describing the complex dynamics and back-drop against which he leads, the following question was posed: “Is it possible to unite our diversity into one direction?” From a leadership context logic follows that to achieve this there has to be a vision. […]
Like most readers of this article I have seen the President of South Africa, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma on my television screen. And, like some of you I came closer to him when I attended a function where he was the special guest. In my case I sat two tables away from him during an evening […]
