Still on the leadership question writing after being sacked as South Africas deputy minister of Health, Nozizwe Madlala – Routledge said in an article entitled Seeking servants of the people, When we choose leaders, we need not give up our own power by putting them on pedestals that distance them from those that they lead. We need not accord them hero worship or fear them so much that we cannot tell them what we think or feel, that we can only tell them what they want to hear. We need not allow them to think they have the last word and that they may not be challenged. True leadership is about giving people the feeling that they can be heard, regardless of who they are and how junior they may be. Quoted from an article i wrote in 2007 Dismantling Patriarchy in MDC,,
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:48:25 +0000
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