With the recent spike of racial and cultural intolerance paired together with gender based violence that has been running the late night and early morning news bulletin, I couldn’t help but see a society that is in dire need of some true leaders to show us the way. As I pondered over these unpleasant incidences, I began to look back into history to find examples of such leaders who stood up at when the world set back in its self created injustices. In all of history there had been many leaders who defied the general status quo of indifference to the plight of their neighbours, Muhammadans Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II the Dalai Lama. Among these great leaders of man there was one who really inspired me, Mother Teresa . Mother Teresa is probably one of the greatest epitome of what it means to be made of greatness as a woman called to a cause greater than yourself. Her greatness was a result of her humbleness as a woman to be a servant to th
I recently had an interesting discussion with a friend. Both of us are in Mozambique for some commissioning work at a mine site, and on our way to the market after knocking off for the day, we started having a random conversation about Mozambique and South Africa. The talk was started when we observed on the side of the road some juveniles ploughing the soil. I had found it quite odd that there were guards, in khaki shirts and pants, watching over this “workers”, and my colleague quickly pointed out that they were actually inmates. He then remarked that it is not like in South Africa where inmates are treated like royalty as they get free food, a decent shelter and free education, to name just a few of the perks. He then said he doesn’t like South Africa because of the crime. And that all of this wouldn’t be an issue if the government simply was more violent in punishing the perpetrators and also bring back the death penalty. Now the conversation went on for a length o