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.
Soul of a Nation (March 2024, Paperback, 192 pg) Oyama Mabandla
