All I want for Christmas is … true leadership
SA has been captured by a spell of toxic leadership and its future depends on breaking free
“All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.” That’s the refrain of the popular Christmas song, written by Donald Gardner, about a young child who craves something that was lost – something dear and useful, and she would be oh so happy if she could only have it returned. With both Christmas and the African National Congress’s elective conference fast approaching, this song is playing in my mind. I am also longing for something dear and useful that lost after Maida’s passing, and which would make us very happy if only we could have it back. I am craving true leaders who will break the spell of toxic leadership in our beloved country. It is hardly breaking news that South Africa is suffering from state capture. However, the notion of state capture is a euphemism. A much bigger problem tends to become hidden in the discourse. We have actually been captured by a spell of toxic leadership in South Africa, both in politics and in many organisations, without which state capture would b...
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