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Leadership in question part nine: Luthuli, masculinity and gender
By: Raymond Suttner 25th January 2021 Previous articles in this series are to be found here. Luthuli’s masculinity, Luthuli as a gendered subject →
Leadership in Question part 8: Luthuli, a Christian Chief with integrity, is deposed by the apartheid regime
By: Raymond Suttner 19th January 2021 Chief Albert Luthuli took being a chief seriously and acted with sensitivity to the needs of his community, refusing to impose fines against an... →
Leadership in Question Part Seven: Chief Albert Luthuli’s leadership comprised multiple, mutually respectful identities
18th January 2021 Chief Albert Luthuli inhabited multiple worlds, as a Christian, an elected chief whose chiefdom comprised mainly people who did not accept the... →
Leadership in Question Part six: Chief Albert Luthuli, leadership and service 
By: Raymond Suttner 11th January 2021 This article is part of a series on leadership. Click here to read articles in the series. The life of Chief Albert Luthuli bears lessons that are... →
Leadership in question part 5: In a pandemic openness and compassion must be part of democratic leadership
By: Raymond Suttner 6th January 2021 In a period of considerable danger, presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, it is essential that leadership enjoys public confidence. Regrettably, the... →
Leadership in Question part 4 – Can the ANC recover and lead a democratic project? Can and should the ANC even survive?
By: Raymond Suttner 7th December 2020 At the moment there is a lot of soul searching under way among ANC stalwarts with whom I am in contact, although I am not part of any of these... →
Leadership in Question part 3: Has Cyril Ramaphosa taken control of the ANC and the state?
By: Raymond Suttner 30th November 2020 It was never going to be easy to steer the South African ship of state after the Jacob Zuma years, even though Cyril Ramaphosa’s rise to the... →
Leadership in Question (Part Two): Emancipatory leadership is needed, even or especially in a crisis situation
By: Raymond Suttner 4th November 2020 Many textbook definitions of leadership focus on who has the right to issue commands or to demand obedience. While that does sometimes relate to... →
Leadership in Question, part one: The leadership we have
By: Raymond Suttner 20th October 2020 In some discourse it appears that leadership and who leads is not very important. There is a Marxist critique of the “great man” version of... →
How do we emerge from the current crisis?
By: Raymond Suttner 11th August 2020 The ANC and President Cyril Ramaphosa personally are taking an unprecedented level of criticism at the moment. Many are finding it shocking that... →
