This document discusses leadership lessons that can be learned from Nelson Mandela. It highlights Mandela's values of servant leadership, forgiveness, reconciliation, social cohesion and nation building. It calls for creating a caring South Africa where everyone treats each other with kindness, respect and dignity, and shares mutual responsibility for the country's wellbeing.

1. LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM NELSON MANDELA
AMATHUBA CONSULTING
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT
The word AMATHUBA is isiXhosa for OPPORTUNITIES
When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace”.
As we Commemorate the first anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s death today, we are reminded of his words in handing over the baton to us:
“It is in your hands to make a difference”.
We are encouraged to remember & celebrate the values & the character of this inspirational leader.
Values of servant leadership, forgiveness, reconciliation, social cohesion and nation building.
We are called to Create Caring Communities that will build a Caring South Africa.
Where everyone is treated with kindness, respect, and dignity.
Where everyone has a mutual sense of Responsibility for the wellbeing of our country.

2. CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF
AMATHUBA CONSULTING
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT
The word AMATHUBA is isiXhosa for OPPORTUNITIES

3. CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF
AMATHUBA CONSULTING
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-EMPOWERMENT
The word AMATHUBA is isiXhosa for OPPORTUNITIES
…the cell is an ideal place to learn to know yourself, to search realistically and regularly the process of your own mind and feelings.
In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one’s social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education.
These are, of course, important in measuring one’s success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these.
But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one’s development as a human being.
Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others – qualities which are within easy reach of every soul – are the foundation of one’s spiritual life.
Development in matters of this nature is inconceivable without serious introspection, without knowing yourself, your weaknesses and mistakes.
At least, if for nothing else, the cell gives you the opportunity to look daily into your entire conduct, to overcome the bad and develop whatever is good In you.
Regular meditation, say about 15 minutes a day before you turn in, can be very fruitful in this regard.
You may find it difficult to pinpoint the negative features in your life, but the 10th attempt may yield rich rewards.
Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
From a letter to Winnie Mandela in Kroonstad Prison, dated 1 February 1975