This book is Professor Makgoba’s reflection of transformation experience in South Africa for over 29 years since his return. It was motivated by the downward spiral and crisis in national leadership that characterises South Africa today and the role politics and the media have played in the project. A country of so much hope in the 1994 Mandela era has fallen like a meteorite rapidly regressing and being ruined through rudderless leadership, corruption, rampant crime and violence, poor governance and poor economic growth, all increasing inequality, unemployment and poverty.

Malegapuru Makgoba’s book titled Leadership for Transformation since the Dawn of Democracy offers a leadership lens for assessing the transition from the racially unjust and socio-economically unsustainable system of colonialism and apartheid, to the constitutionally promised land, that should have emerged since the dawn of democracy in 1994.

The book meticulously weaves together Makgoba’s leadership odyssey since returning to South Africa to take up a Deputy Vice Chancellor position at Wits University 29 years ago, and his experiences and views as a participant observer on leadership in state affairs during the first 29 years of democracy