It is important to start with the outcome in mind. For me it meant the answer to the question, "what does it takes to become a great leader? The kind of leader that will create followers? " The answers to that questions cropped up in every conversation and behaviours and characteristics are as extensive as they are challenging. "You don't do leadership you 'be' it"

Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your inner voice

“I learned, there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat to strike a ball. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.”

You can also buy your own bat.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meat it with courage and with the best that you have to give. Courage is being willing to risk with the pain of failure in order to archive success.

 

Another portion of the money could have been spent on developing the informal retail sector in townships, otherwise known as the spaza shop.

Broad-based empowerment is important, and using established patterns of investment and business such as the stokvel and the spaza would yield bigger gains and help solve high youth unemployment, the biggest threat to stability.

The problem has manifested itself in a number of violent and fatal xenophobic attacks spreading…

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