Democracy works — we just need better leaders | Lindiwe Mazibuko

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

South Africa transitioned to democracy in the 1990s with a visionary constitution, but the promises of that constitution are largely unfulfilled to this day. Public leader Lindiwe Mazibuko explores how poor leadership failed to deliver a better life for the country's citizens — and shares her mission to cultivate a new generation of ethical leaders who can revitalize democracy in South Africa and beyond.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:12.0	South Africa's transition to democracy. Please, Hugh, you're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:12.8	South Africa's transition to democracy
0:15.5	is often a reminder of how far societies can come
0:19.0	in delivering a better life for all its people.
0:22.0	But today's South Africa is one of the most unequal on earth, says
0:26.4	public leader Linde-Mazibucco. In her 2023 talk at Ted Democracy, she lays out the leadership changes that are needed to fully realize
0:35.8	the promise of South African democracy.
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1:17.0	I was 14 years old in 1994 when my country South Africa held its historic first
1:28.9	Democratic elections. I can vividly remember my mother taking me with her to the voting station which was near the clinic where she worked and where she would cast her vote for the very first time in a general election at the age of 45 years old.
1:45.8	That's two years older than I am today standing in front of you.
1:50.6	By then my mother was a taxpayer and a homeowner and she was a
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