The Challenge to Ethical Leadership in South Africa
Prof. Pedro Tabensky, Director: Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University. … we determine ideals by our daily actions and decisions not only for ourselves, but largely for each other. We are all involved in this political corruption and, as members of the community, stand indicted. This is the penalty of a democracy—that we are bound to move forward or retrograde together. None of us can stand aside; our feet are mired in the same soil, and our lungs breathe the same air. Addams, Jane, Democracy and Social Ethics , (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902) ‘My people are sick. How can you live in a world where when you take your girlfriend for a walk, you are always looking behind your shoulder?’ He began to dart around the Company Gardens pathway, ducking phantom predators. ‘On the Cape Flats,’ he continued, ‘even the dogs are scared of human beings.’ Steinberg, Jonny, The Number: One Man’s Search for Ident...