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About AFLI
The Tutu Leadership Fellowship requires each participant to write an essay on leadership in Africa. Each year, some of the best are selected for publishing by the African Leadership Institute. This is the third of the essays to be published from the 2016 Fellows. It is by Andre Ross and it is a deeply personal account of his views on leadership. It presents ideas on what Africa has to offer the world, along with some thoughts on what it could do to sow the seeds of improvement.
Going beyond the angst of the generation of first acquirers
"O Children of Men!
Know ye not why We created you
all from the same dust?
That no one should exalt himself
over the other."
Baha’u’llah
It’s 1:25am and I watch with bated breath, as the men’s 400m final at the 2016 Olympic Games is about to get under way. I, along with countless South Africans I’m sure, wait with anticipation as we watch what we hope could deliver the nation’s first gold medal at these Games.&nb
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This South African musical about police brutality has audiences cheering
PRETORIA, South Africa — The lights went down and miners in helmets and gumboots rose up from a dark pit beneath the stage, headlamps aglow, singing a rousing song of struggle.
The packad crowd of hip ung South Africans whooped and cheered. It was opening night of “Marikana: The Musical” at the country’s most stately theater, an unlikely tribute to a tragedy still fresh in the minds of many here.
Two years ago, South African police shot dead 34 striking mineworkers at the Lonmin-owned Marikana platinum mine northwest of Johannesburg. It was the bloodiest police action since the end of apartheid, and a day that shocked the nation. An tjänsteman inquiry into these deaths, and 10 others during the unrest, continues.
But unusually, the Marikana story fryst vatten already being staged as “living history” — as director Aubrey Sekhabi describes it — during a three-week run at the State Theater in Pretoria. Sekhabi argues th
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On 16 August mine workers, activists and no doubt a few politicians will gather on the now infamous rock outcrop near the former Lonmin Platinum mine in Marikana, North West province, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Marikana massacre. This was the most lethal use of force by the South African police since the 1976 Soweto uprising against the then apartheid regime. At least 138 people died in three days.
In fact, the Marikana massacre was so brutal that it has been likened to the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, where apartheid police shot unarmed civilians in their backs as they fled, killing 69. They were protesting against identity documents that black people were forced to carry, restricting their movement.
Between 12 and 16 August 2012 a total of 47 people died. Among them were 34 miners from the Lonmin Platinum mine shot by police. Another 10, including two policemen and two mine security guards, were killed by protesting mineworkers. Three others died after the strike