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Soul of a Nation is an account of 40 years of our turbulent history. As a young man, Oyama Mabandla left home and family for a difficult exile and now wonders why it hasn't all turned out better – and what might be done about it.
Business leader and political commentator Mabandla excavates the values that gave birth to pioneering South Africans under impossible conditions. These values bolstered a liberation ethic and championed a leadership that made individual nobility and excellence aspirational. Can these values, in retreat since 1994, be recaptured and set South Africa on its best trajectory?
In this excerpt, Mabandla considers the matter of education.
