Scenarios playing themselves in the lead up to Mangaung
Introduction
The nomination process had been officially opened by the ANC. Interestingly one province made a comic of itself by pronouncing in advance their preferred candidates for top six positions only to retract the statement before the sun could set.
The issue of leadership is as linguists would say, rather a paradoxical one. Leadership contestation during elective conferences may turn out be very easy and too difficult to deal with, depending on how you approach it. The thin line is whether we put our personal or organisational interests first.
In an attempt to unpack the leadership puzzle going to Mangaung I would paint a medley of three scenarios and lessons that interplay themselves as follows:
The Marikana Sangoma: