The Ethical Leadership Project's Official Newsletter

Abstract

In South Africa, after our demoralising history of Apartheid, the more defective our leaders, the more we long for highly effective, ethical leaders. Regrettably, our leaders sometimes consciously act in unethical ways, because power and lead them to believe that they are not bound by the same ethical norms as the rest of society. As we embrace the dawn of the 2009 elections, we need to remember that sometimes leaders who have “little power and standing in the community come to believe their own propaganda’’ and “have no guiding morality and are driven solely by the pursuit of self-furtherance” (Andrew Stephen). Every being, whether a leader or a follower, should be expected to adhere to the ethical norms of society and it should come from within (Francis 2008).