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True leadership he was wrong not to implement the public protector’s report on Nkandla. He now has to pay back the money for undue benefits. We do not expect much when it comes to people facing up to their failures. It was therefore a shocking and moving experience to watch a media briefing by the Trek4Mandela team on their return from Mount Kilimanjaro after the tragic death of racing car driver Gugu Zulu. Zulu died after experiencing difficulty breathing while he and his wife Letshego were attempting to summit the mountain as part of a charity drive for the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The news of the death of the sports personality stunned the nation and left those who knew him in deep grief. When the Nelson Mandela Foundation announced that there would be a media briefing on the team’s return from Tanzania, it was expected that there would be tributes and expressions of condolence. What ensued, however, was unprecedented. The expedition leader, mountaineer Sibusiso Vilane, began with an emotional apology to the nation for not bringing the whole team back home. “It was on Wednesday last week when I stood up and said to your fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters who had come to bid you farewell. that as the leader of the Trek4Mandela Caring4Girls Kilimanjaro expedition, my role is to make sure that I bring those you have come to say goodbye to back safely and alive. I am very disappointed to say I did not deliver on that promise,” Vilane said, breaking down in tears.
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E often moan about the lack of accountability in our society and the chronic failure of our leaders to take responsibility for their actions. Passing the buck and employing delaying tactics, including costly court actions, appear to be the default reactions of people in leadership positions when they are caught out being involved in wrongdoing. One only has to look at the wild goose chase embarked on by the chief operating officer of the SABC, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, to stay in his job and continue stripping the public broadcaster of credibility. President Jacob Zuma had mastered the art of dodging accountability until he was dragged to the Constitutional Court and forced to admit that
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“DO you make the tea? When I first went into an executive position I was convinced and I was determined I was not going to go into a board meeting and make the tea or take the minutes. “For ages I didn’t. I was very militant about it and the tea would arrive and I would studiously ignore it and wait for somebody else to make it. However, I would feel embarrassed about it because it just didn’t feel right. “I knew I was doing it to make a point, but I felt uncomfortable and so did the men in the room. So I made a decision that I would make the tea. “When I got to a board meeting or any sort of meeting where I was always the only woman - and sometimes with between 10 and 15 men in the room, I would ensure that I organised the tea and coffee before the meeting started. “What would happen is that the meeting would start
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Vilane and the team doctor Roxanne Schutte gave a run down of what had happened, describing Zulu’s condition at various stages of the trek until they decided that he should be brought down the mountain. The Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Sello Hatang, who had flown to Tanzania after hearing of Zulu’s death, told how he had roped the couple into participating in the expedition. “Little did he know that that was his final destination. To South Africa, I would like to say I’m really sorry that I didn’t bring Gugu Zulu back alive. At this very low moment for our country, this low moment for the Nelson Mandela Foundation and for Madiba’s legacy, we will say this is yet another mountain that we have to summit again,” an emotional Hatang said. Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula offered words of comfort, saying it had been a voluntary climb for a good cause and that nobody should feel blame. “Here before us, lies a story of goodwill that humanity and all races must follow. It is an inspirational story. It is tragic, but it will remain for us in history forever and forever.” Many people at the media briefing and watching the live broadcast were in tears as each member of the panel spoke. Zulu’s death at the prime of his life, leaving behind a wife and oneyear-old baby, is painful and tragic. But it was also deeply moving to see Hatang and the team members respecting the nation enough to account for what happened, even though they themselves were grief-stricken. Nobody had expected immediate and detailed answers but they felt it their responsibility to account to the nation. There could be no greater mark of true leadership. • Ranjeni Munusamy is a political journal ist and commentator for the Daily Maver ick. ranjeni.munusamy@gmail.com
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and then there would be this huge disruption with the tea and coffee story. “Luckily I sell coffee machines so I would often take a coffee machine in to demonstrate - then I would make coffee for everyone - and sell the machine to some. I found that by doing that, when it came to me asking them for something they felt they had to give it to me because I had given them their coffee after all, so it actually worked for me. “When it came to taking the minutes, I was trained as a shorthand typist and I can type almost as fast as people can talk - so people relied on me to take the minutes. At first I was annoyed because I felt I couldn’t contribute to the meeting. “Then I worked out that I would plan what I had to say ahead of time and type it out so I would not have to type it into the minutes. I would take minutes while everyone was talking and I actually found that I remembered far more of what was going on. It gave me time to think and also I could refer to my notes and come up with good ideas at the end. “I always say to women who are in boardrooms, don’t act as if you are someone else. You are still a woman and it make sense to make the tea. My husband makes coffee for every person who comes to see him. They feel he is being humble and waiting on them, and he enjoys doing it. Its gives him time to think and is a great ice-breaker. So don’t be the Devil Wears Prada character, be that fabulous person that everyone wants to be around. Offer to make the tea and coffee. Take the minutes. Send them off straight away. Go the extra mile, and see how well it works for you.
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