...INSPIRATON FROM MOVIE INVICTUS “ I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL MASTER OF MY FATE” The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match. There were many moments which influenced me such as- 1. Mr. President talks to his guard about RECONCILIATION and FORGIVENESS. 2. When Mr. President talks to captain regarding- We need Inspiration 3. When Nelson Mandela asks the members of springbok team to trust his strategy and do not change the name of the team. 4. Springbok team members played with a group of children. 5. Inspired by Mandela, Francois admires Mandela’s forgiveness. Out of the all the moment which inspired me was the’ meeting of Mr. Mandela and the captain regarding inspiration’ For me the moment in the movie was when MR MANDELA had tears of joys in his eyes when he was in car. As he initially wanted from heart that team should win for the country and it made the country proud and so was MR MANDELA, because mr mandela himself was fond of rugby ( this was shown from the point he called captain for tea to guide him towards leadership ) While...
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...Nelson Mandela INTRODUCTION I. Attention-getter: “During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” II. Introduce Person or group of people: This is a quote from the former President of South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, known more often by his people as Madiba. He is a symbol of freedom and hope, a symbol of a better South Africa, a better world. III. Preview Main Points: Throughout his entire life, Nelson Mandela has showed some true passion, commitment, and forgiveness. BODY I. During the years 1948 and 1993 South Africa was under the rule of the National Party government and the Apartheid. The Apartheid was an official policy that dealt with racial segregation involving political, legal and economic discrimination against nonwhites that was highly enforced. It was during this period where Nelson Mandela showed his true passion. He stood against the Nationalist Party, describing them as being like a grave, beautiful on the outside, and full of evil inside. He took a leadership role in the the African National Congress, the opposing party against the reigning government. It was by taking...
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...Leading like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela Posted on August 17, 2011 by Martin Kalungu-Banda The world is in dire need of great leaders, ones who inspire people not through words but by serving them. The cutting edge in leadership discourse is the old fashioned idea of leadership through service. The whole human race, we could say, desperately needs these servant-leaders who really attend to others and are beacons of hope in our search for a world society where justice, fairness, care for the weaker members of our communities, and love flourish. The call for leaders who genuinely serve their people is obvious in social and political communities. We can see it equally in the economic sphere, in business organisations or corporations. The high turnover of staff in many work places suggests that people are looking for what Lance Secretan, a Canadian guru on leadership, calls ‘soul space’[1] – an environment where they will not simply be cogs in the wheel of production but can live full and happy lives. In my book, Leading Like Madiba: Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela[2], published in March 2006, I have attempted to present through stories the type of leadership that will take our world a higher ground.[3] What is so extraordinary about Mr Mandela’s style and practice of leadership is that it crosses the boundaries of culture, gender, race, religion and age. Madiba (as he is fondly referred to in his home country) has done so in a society that was once...
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...Mandela----Invictus Mandela Invincible: African Biography, 1999: “You had no doubt when you were with [Nelson Mandela] that he had what we call in our language 'shadow'—substance, presence. He was regal.”—Desmond Tutu A herd boy from an isolated mountainous area who did not wear shoes until age 16, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela rose against overwhelming odds to be president of the richest, most culturally diverse country in Africa. He endured more than 27 years in jail for trying to overthrow a white police state, becoming the world's most famous political prisoner. He led voteless black South Africans from the racist apartheid period into a democratic era in 1994. (Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning apartness or separateness. It is a system of segregation based on race that favors whites and restricts blacks to labor reserves.) Celebrated as an international hero upon his release from prison in 1990, Mandela will be remembered as one of the twentieth century's towering leaders. Mandela will also be remembered as the precedent-setting African head of state who announced his retirement at the peak of his power after only one five-year term in office. By retiring, he passed "the baton" to a new generation, leaving behind a reputation untarnished by corruption and brutality that besmirched so many long-term African leaders. More than anyone else, Mandela bridged African and European cultures--taking the best from each. He was an educated man, a lawyer, a democrat, a shrewd...
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...Some friends of my family own a small café called The Corner Shop Cafe, I recently sat down with them and suggested them to use some strategies ( that I have recently studied in our book and especially in chapter 5) as a framework when making a qualitative evaluation of a firm's strategic position. These strategies will determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. These strategies affect the ability of a company to serve its customers and make a profit. A change in any of the strategies normally requires a company to re-assess the market place. Bargaining Power of Customers Is high when buyers have many choices of whom to buy from and low when the choices are few. By offering your customers high quality fresh food, they will come to your café instead of your competitors. One way to reduce buyer power is to implement Loyalty Programs. A Loyalty Program that can be implemented in the Corner Shop Cafe is to have a customer purchase card. Every time a customer makes a purchase, this card gets "stamped" and after 7 purchases of a sandwich, their 8th one is free or 50% off. Bargaining Power of Suppliers Corner Shop Cafe will want its supplier power to be low. The café should seek out and search suppliers that will offer the lowest price. Since there are many suppliers of basic commodities (e.g., flour, sugar, bread) they all will be vying for your business. A private exchange or a reverse auction could be done in order for you to get the...
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...Leadership of Nelson Mandela In the twenty first century leaders are required to build a greater impression in which people believe in strategy, trust in management decisions, and trust in their work. Once people believe in management choice, there will be enthusiasm inside an organization. Such an environment helps the organization growing and flourish. Great leaders create a surrounding of corporation inside and outside the organization. The world puts much hope in political leaders but unfortunately only a few live up to the main beliefs and values of leadership. This assay will be analyzing one of South Africa’s most recognized and dedicated leaders of all time, who dedicated his entire life fighting for freedom of his beloved nation and compare it to my own life and leadership traits. Personally I consider myself to be a leader whom many people (family, friends and peers) look up to at times. I was raised to take great pride in my actions and be as knowledgeable as possible before taking action. I thank both my parents for teaching me many things in my life time that I have been able to use to become a good man and leader to those who look up to me. My father Eleazar who I got my name from is from Venezuela, just the fact that my father passed his name on to me just s his father did to him says a lot about how much family means to him. I’ve always admired how much he cared about his family. I try to relay that passion in my own life, caring deeply for my family, my sister...
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...“A leader is someone who demonstrates what is possible” - Mark Yarnell and Nelson Mandela is living proof. During his darkest moments in prison, Nelson Mandela was driven by the power of words to motivate and inspire. The simple lines from a poem written by William Ernest Henley, inspired Nelson Mandel to, after almost thirty years in Prison, become “the Masters of our fate, the captains of our souls.” (William E. Henly, 2012) Nelson Mandela was born the fourth son of the Chief of the Tembu tribe on July 18, 1918 in Transkei, South Africa and from the beginning he describes that his childhood was a “form of apprenticeship shaped by knowledge of his ‘destiny’, in which he would ascend to office as the key counsellor to the Tembu chiefdom.” (Lodge, 2006) Ironically, Mandela’s name given at birth was Rolihlahla; roughly translated as ‘troublemaker’. As a young man he was always fighting for South Africa’s cause, and by doing good for the people, trouble always seemed to follow him (Lodge, 2006). At the age of nineteen, Mandela enrolled in Fort Hare University, where he began studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree (Lodge, 2006). While at the school, he became involved in the local politics in the school and was eventually asked to leave. Soon after being expelled from Fort Hare, Mandela moved to Johannesburg, where he met a man named Walter Sisulu, whom Mandela would come to form a lifelong friendship with (Lodge, 2006). Sisulu was so impressed with Mandela upon meeting him that...
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... 2.2.7 Servant Leadership 12 2.2.8 Task-Oriented Leadership 12 2.2.9 Transactional Leadership 12 2.2.10 Transformational Leadership 13 2.3 Using the Right Style Situational Leadership 13 2.4 Three Classic Leadership Styles 14 2.4.1 The Laissez Faire Leadership Style 14 2.4.2 The Autocratic Leadership Style 14 2.4.3 The Participative Leadership Style 14 CHAPTER III 15 FINDING AND RESULT 15 2.1 Political Activity 15 3.1.1 Armed anti-apartheid activities 16 3.1.2 Arrest and Rivonia trial 17 3.1.3 Imprisonment 19 3.1.4 Release 21 3.1.5 Negotiations 22 3.1.6 Presidency of South Africa 23 3.1.7 Lockerbie trial 26 CHAPTER IV 28 CONCLUSION 28 BIBLIOGRAPHY 32 CHAPTER I FIGURE PROFILE Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; born 18 July 1918) is a South African politician who served as president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first ever to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before being elected president, Mandela was a militant anti-apartheid activist, and the leader and co-founder of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges,...
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...type of attitude one should keep when going through obstacles in life. Anglo-Saxon hero, Beowulf, and modern day hero, Nelson Mandela can be characterized as archetypal heroes from the characteristics that define them. Ancient hero Beowulf along with present day hero Nelson Mandela similarly have comparable quests during their time. Both heros during their quests experience great struggle and obstacles which they had to overcome in order to achieve their goals. Beowulf’s quest dealt with him having to defeat the monster, “Grendel, who haunted the moors, the wild Marshes, and made his home in a hell” (Raffel 44). The Anglo-Saxon hero may not have used weapons on his quest but he did use his Geats to his full advantage. In his epic quest to slay the monster, Beowulf realizes he cannot be successful alone and that he will need the aide of his loyal Geats. When faced with adversity he always had his men at his side. By succeeding in defeating the monster, Beowulf would have freed people of their nightmare. They showed their gratitude by holding ,“...a banquet in [his] honor, [and toasting to his] victories..."(Raffel 49). Like Beowulf, Nelson Mandela had a difficult quest to fulfill as well, “Mandela's main agenda consisted of winning over white conservatives and black political rivals and accomplishing the economic integration of the black majority" (Nelson Mandela 6). Mandela had a numerous amount of issues on his plate to deal with, yet through it all he never lost focus on...
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...Is it fair to prosecute someone for breaking an unjust law? Alan Paton’s Too Late the Phalarope, set in Apartheid South Africa, analyzes this dilemma through the story of Pieter van Vlaanderen, a white South African police lieutenant, who must battle the criticism of a stringent community, his family, and his own perception of morality. As a lieutenant and a star rugby player, Pieter is a well-respected member of his society, yet he begins to have sexual relations with a young, black girl named Stephanie, in direct violation of the Immorality Act of 1927. Pieter is a family man who cheats on his wife, and a police lieutenant who breaks the law. One would think that the reader would have no sympathy for Pieter—in fact, it is quite the opposite. Through Pieter’s “social death,” Paton garners sympathy for Pieter’s tragedy, and ultimately unveils the repressed society as the “tragic figure,” thus conveying a more universal political message. Paton uses this compassion as a vessel to expose and criticize an unjust society, in which an affair of the heart can result in imprisonment. Through displaying Pieter’s inner-turmoil, Paton weaves a portrait of a troubled and alone Pieter who needs support and intimacy to avoid his self-destruction. Sophie, Pieter’s aunt and the story’s narrator, begins the novel saying, “[p]erhaps I could have saved him, with only a word, two words, out of my mouth” (9). Although the reader has no personal connection with either Sophie or Pieter, the...
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...Nelson Mandela Who is a political leader in the United State that was interesting enough for me to discuss? It had to be someone who capture my attention and who has made an impact; not just impact a few people but on/in the world as a whole. I have heard of Nelson Mandela over the years but never knew who he really was. In researching him I have discover that he is a freedom fighter and a peace activist. A true man to be reckon with. The life of Rolihlahla Mandela began in Mvezo, a village near Mthantha in the Transkei. He was born on July 18, 1918, to Henry Mgadla Mandela and Nonqaphi Nosekeni. People often wonder what his name meant or if it had a meaning. Rolihlahla means “pulling the branch of a tree. This was a name that his father gave him. His father was the principal councilor to the Acting Paramount Chief of the Thembu. His father died when he was 9 years old, when his father past he became the ward of Jongintaba Dalindyebo, the Paramount Chief, for him to be groomed to assume a high office. So, at an early age he was prepared to be a great leader and he probably didn’t understand what was happening because he was so young. He attended a local mission school, where they gave him the name Nelson. Mandel is really a smart man; he attended several schools as he grew up. He attended Clarkebury Boarding Institute, Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary and University College of Fort Hatra for his Bachelor of Arts Degree. He was later suspended because he joined in a protest...
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...that you can obtain from education is knowledge. College education can take you far in life, the more college education and knowledge that you have the better your life can be. College education and knowledge will help me expand new skills and ideas. It will also allow me to advance what I’ve learned and prepare me for life experiences that will benefit me and my children in the long run for the good. With a college education, I can obtain my degree and be financially stable and have a career in the field of my choice. Without this education I would not be able to get a good job or support my family the way that I would like to. I also would not be able to lead by example to my children without having a college degree. According to Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. In conclusion, college education is important for many reasons and many people. For me it will help me be a great role model for my children and be a great example for many others. College...
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...Yes, Mandela ------------------------------------------------- Essay Nelson Mandela became a legend long before he passed away and to most of the world he is known as the greatest hero of South Africa. According to the Oxford dictionary a hero is: “1 a person especially a man, who is admired by many people for doing sth brave or good. [...] 3 a person, especially a man, that you admire because of a particular quality or skill that they have.” There were several political prisoners imprisoned on Robben Island both before, during and after Mandela served on the island. But why was Mandela the only one to become a living legend? The poem “Yes, Mandela” by Dennis Brutus, is a lyrical poem describing the sender’s strong emotional relationship to Nelson Mandela, as both a personal hero and a hero for fighting apartheid. Brutus was born and raised in South Africa in the year of 1924. He was a teacher, a political activist, a poet and an academic. He fought against racial discrimination, like Mandela, and he was sentenced and served part of his time in Robben Island convicted to hard labor, like Mandela. In the poem, we therefor see Brutus express an inside understanding and appreciation for Mandela’s actions and will to stand up for his believes, no matter the price, and yet remain the same person: a role model, a leader and a savior. “in the salt island air you swung your hammer, grimly, stoic facing the dim path of interminable years now, vision burred with tears we see...
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... Word Count: Specific Purpose: To inform the audience of the Nelson Mandela’s challenges and the difference he made in many lives. Central Idea: To discuss how Nelson Mandela overcame his challenges. Introduction * First Main Point –(Attention Getter) I had a dream about a black American friend who was always bullied by her classmates and she did nothing about it. * (Reveal your topic) While watching her being ill-treated, I wondered what it would be like to stand up for oneself or show others your standards. * (Establish Credibility) I will give a brief history of Nelson Mandela and what he had done for the world. * (Relevancy Statement) Nelson Mandela did not have a lot of parental support as a child. His father died when he was 12 years old. He fought for fairness and equality. He had many struggles to overcome. He sacrificed his family to gain support for the armed struggle. He went to the extent of leaving the country illegally. This encourages everyone to stand for what is right. * (Preview of Main Points) I will summarize responses about his life and how he began to change the world. Transition: Due to Nelson Mandela’s experiences, it is important to take example and follow in his footsteps. Body First Main Point- Could we imagine how Nelson Mandela felt when became such an icon? * Maybe he felt like a king or boastful Response: I was not a messiah but an ordinary...
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...Nelson Mandela was known as a world leader for his role in fighting apartheid and being the first multi-racial president of South Africa. His presidency created a significant change in the perception and building of a multiracial society in South Africa and around the world. Nelson Mandela was also known to be a leader of a civil rights organization known as the African National Congress. The purpose of the African National Congress was to demolish racial segregation and discrimination. The two most significant social changes made by Nelson Mandela was his uniting of a fiercely divided country and his creation of a truly democratic society in South Africa. A great leader will always fight for what they believe in. Nelson Mandela's dream was building a society in which all South Africans could live in freedom and prosperity. He wanted a free, non-racial, and non-sexist society for all South Africans. In Mandela’s early years he was raised by the Thembu tribe located on South Africa’s southeastern coast. He wanted to escape the Thembu traditions of marrying a woman of his regent’s choice so he fled to Johannesburg. In Johannesburg, Mandela was able to find work at a Jewish law firm in 1942. His entry level position encouraged him to obtain a bachelor’s degree in law. Through this law firm, Mandela was introduced to many different ideas, communists, politicians, and the African National Congress. During this time, South Africa was ruled by a white government which believed in...
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