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Transformational LeadershipAddress at World
Alliance of YMCA conference held 08 July,2006 at
Kearsney College, KZN By Letepe Maisela
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BACKGROUND

• Introductory Notes
• Thanks to Organisers - in particular Ms. Jenny
  Aris
• YMCA World Council
• Welcome Sanibonani

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16 June 1976 the aftermath

• 16 June 2006 at 7 am joined President Mbeki and
  hundreds of others to commemorate the 1976 Soweto
  students protest march

• In 1976, the Soweto students faced the might of
  the armed Apartheid Police force. In 2006, the
  Police formed a guard of honour all along the
  march route.

• 1976 was a defining moment for the South
  African Youth and it took some form of
  transformational leadership by Tsietsi
  Mashinini.

• Mashinini was head of the Soweto Student
  Representative Council (SSRC).

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Leadership as a Concept

• The quality of leadership in the SSRC was such
  that it managed to mobilise the young students of
  Soweto to come to a march, using only word of-
  mouth communication.

• Leadership is not a new phenomenon. Matthew 1514
  says, If the blind lead the blind, both shall
  fall into the ditch.

• Characteristics of a good leader are, according
  to experts, as follows
• Ability to influence people
• Charisma
• Oratory skills
• Confidence to lead
• Visionary

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Types of Leadership

• Appointed leaders, eg the Pope, President
  Mbeki, Bishop Tutu etc.

• Born leaders, or those who emerge as leaders
  eg Mandela, Dalai Lama, Tsietsi Mashinini

Famous quote Some are born great, some achieve
greatness and some have greatness thrust upon
them.
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Basic Ingredients of Leadership

• Guiding vision
• Passion
• Integrity
• Trust
• Curiosity
• Daring
• Source Warren Bennis, Management Guru

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Cont.

• Steven Covey, Seven Habits of Highly Successful
  People talks of People Centred Leadership.
• One thing leaders have in common are willing
  followers
• According to Jesse Jackson, leaders have a
  unifying effect Leaders do not choose sides,
  but bring sides together.
• Leadership differs from management in that it is
  about ROLE and not merely POSITION.
• The concept of shared leadership, remains a
  fallacy. In the real world, few lead and the rest
  follow.

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Historical Examples of Good Transformational
Leadership

• MOSES, who led the children of Israel from
  Pharoah across the Red Sea into their promised
  land

• SHAKA the Zulu King who fought foreign invaders
  and unified the Southern African tribes

• WALT DISNEY who founded Disneyland, the worlds
  biggest theme park.

• HENRY FORD who built the first car for the
  multitudes.

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Historical Examples of Good Transformational
Leadership

• SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL who led the League of
  Nations to defeat Nazism

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Cont.

• MARTIN LUTHER KING jnr. who had a dream Rooted
  deeply in the American Dream I have a dream that
  one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of
  former slaves and the sons of former slave
  owners, will be able to sit down together at the
  table of brotherhood

• TSIETSI MASHININI, who freed the black student in
  South Africa from the shackles of Apartheid
  education

• NELSON MANDELA who after spending 27 years in
  jail still had the magnanimity of embracing his
  former incarcerators and vowed

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Mandelas Vow

• Never, never, and never again
• Shall it be that this beautiful land
• Will again experience the oppression of one by
  another
• And suffer the indignity of being the skunk of
  the world
• Let freedom reign!
• The Sun shall never set on so glorious a human
  achievement
• GOD BLESS AFRICA- NKOSI SIKELELA IAFRIKA
• End
• (Brief book reading, debate and QA session)