Nelson Mandela's Influence On South African Leadership

Leaders are not born, they are developed, and a true leader is leaders in every area of life. Example parents who are involved in the communities provide the best leadership; people can do small things, like join community groups, to be a leader in the family is how you build a strong and healthy community.

Moreover there are example of African leaders who their leaders are result of the fruitiness of their parents and their family. Late hon. Julius Kambarage Nyerere was the former president of Tanzania 1964 until 1985. Nyerere was born to Chief Burito Nyerere of the Zanaki a small ethnic group in northern Tanganyika. Nyerere was raised into the polytheistic belief system of the Zanaki, and lived at his mother's house, assisting in the farming

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela former African president of South African 1994-1999 .Nelson Mandela was the son of Chief Henry Mandela of the Madiba clan of the Xhosa-speaking Tembu people. In 1952 in Johannesburg, with fellow ANC leader Oliver Tambo, Mandela established South Africa’s first black laws practice, specializing in cases resulting from the post -1948 apartheid legislation. Mandela played an important role in launching a campaign of defiance against South Africa’s pass laws, which required nonwhites to carry documents. (Mandela Nelson, 1994)

For this reason I agree to say that leadership begins at home because we see hon. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela the way he fills pain when his fellow African where depressed.Mandela was raised with his parents with good moral to love his country and people, that way he become a role model leader.

In summary there is also, our president Dr John Pombe Joseph Magufuli is another a role model leader who is strong consequently his leading start at home. And he is born on October 29,

Presently parents are very busy, they don’t take care of their children instead they leave them to the house girls. Parents they don’t teach their children good traits, example to work hard, to do job in team work, how to communicate, to pray, even to know the values of their tradition. Children they engage in watching programmed in the TVs, charting, sitting in the bad groups. That why at this present time children they don’t fear -God, obeys their parents.

Consequences of this problem is that in many organizations, institutions, leaders they engage in corruption, theft, fraud and unprofessionally because they want to be reach and to hold most property their self, they don’t have patriotism with their country. Leaders they want to live in luxuries life to have big houses, good cars, much money because they don’t fills painful with their country.

In conclusion in order to get good leaders let parents begins at home. Because if the parents raised their children in God -fearing, work hard, team work, communication, obey they will produce the good leaders at the same time good nation. As shown above examples of