‘Please stop this insatiable hunger for money’, says Chief Justice Mogoeng
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has slammed self-serving leaders and has called for the functional leadership struggle stalwart Oliver Tambo believed in and strived for. "You must be very afraid of any leader who is prepared to do anything to become a leader. "We must avoid becoming positional leaders‚" said Mogoeng. Positional leaders‚ he said‚ were after only the privileges that come with the positions they hold or would hold. Mogoeng was speaking at the OR Tambo memorial lecture at Turbine Hall in Johannesburg on Thursday. "You can be an effective leader without occupying any position. "We need to become our little ORs in our own operational spaces. The difficulty is human beings like positions‚" Mogoeng said to loud cheers and applause. Mogoeng said Tambo was a functional leader who chose to put former president Nelson Mandela ahead of himself. "He chose to profile him [Mandela] over himself." "I wish‚ particularly we South Africans‚ have the appreciation of that selflessness [of ...
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