Soul of a Nation

There is lament about how and why the ANC have so quickly become preoccupied with material enrichment. The logical question is: Were freedom fighters fighting for the socalled mythical ‘masses of our people’, or were they fighting for their self-actualisation as human beings, which the apartheid reality, was both negating and impeding? With apartheid over and global capitalism ruling supreme, could self-actualisation include the pursuit of material wealth? Did we not become so disengaged ourselves from being an engaged citizenry, that we passively expected our rulers to miraculously remain continuously ‘lofty’? Former MK, business leader and political commentator, Oyama Mabandla, excavates the values that created a steady flow of pioneering South Africans under impossible circumstances, bolstered a liberation ethic and championed a leadership that made individual nobility and excellence aspirational. These values, maligned in 94, can still recapture the nation's best trajectory.