Publication Details Reference Mthembu, Ntokozo  (2008) The bearers of ubuntu/botho principles at the helm of individualistic capitalist norms: the case of traditional leaders in the post apartheid Azania (South Africa) . Paper prepared for presentation on the 3rd Annual Traditional Leadership Conference  : 1-17. Summary The paper is written in times when post-colonial Africa still struggling with the same old challenges of the 20th Century , as the continent is trying to navigate and negotiate its location and position in this globalised world. The paper aims to show the many challenges facing Africa today in the struggle to achieve peace and sustainable development. At the centre of this struggle is the burning issue of leadership and their weaknesses and strengths of various leadership styles adopted by African leaders in facing these challenges. The paper attempts to scrutinise the pre and post colonialist traditional leadership in relation to Afrocentric societal moral values. It will also attempts revisit ubuntu principle with a view to gain more understanding its universality. In addition, the paper will also make some recommendations that can be considered in formulating strategies that will produce everlasting solutions to Africa and her children. In meeting these challenges they have adopted various strategies such as the African Renaissance in order to achieve cultural, scientific, economic constrains and renewal. Among other things the African Renaissance is a philosophical and political movement that intend to end the violence, elitism, corruption and poverty that seem to haunting the African continent, and replace them with a more just and equitable order. In trying to add to rebuilding of Africa, this paper intends to rehabilitate traditional leadership, by trying to expose the weaknesses and strength of traditional leadership. Read Publication   Back