This is an except on Leadership from “Becoming”
African pioneers hoists flag at camp every morning
I visited Congo-Brazzaville when I was eight-year-old. It was an intriguing experience. I was with a group of pioneers all my peers. Despite our tender ages we were considered the first ‘South African delegation’ they had ever hosted.
This Reconciliation Day article reflects on some of the causes of the decline of the Zulu military might prior to Blood River.
First Published in Sunday Independent December 16, 2012
An early MK flyer
Today is a glorious day; some will say.
Besides the more obvious political platitudes that engulf Mangaung today (at the ANC’s elective Conference of Dec 2012), some will point out that today is the day that the ruling party’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) was formed in the days when it was still a party-non-grata in 1961.
