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Foundational steps: Joe Slovo, Nelson Mandela, Jacob Zuma, Alfred Nzo and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela during a rally for Mandela. Slovo said in 1990 that the party’s leaders must ‘turn the snowfall of talks into an avalanche of transformation’. Photo: Louise Gubb/Corbis Saba/Getty Images
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Traumatised societies need ethical leaders

The past cannot be erased, but leaders can choose how to respond to it and how to forge a better future

  • William Gumede
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