The Sunday Mail
Tinashe A Maburu U6Arts (2015) Mabvuku High School Headboy
THEY say experience is the best teacher and I agree with it I had no adequate knowledge about leadership until junior council came my way.
This blessing of being a junior councillor saw me develop into a leader that I now am.
A good leader is the one who considers himself to be a leader of leaders hence the leaders I led made me develop into becoming one of the best.
The doors of more experience where later on opened by Zimbabwe United Nations Association when i was in 2014 given the chance to stand in as the secretary general of Model UN from a ticket of being the Kenyan ambassador to this auspicious assembly. Finally I became the Headboy of my home Mabvuku High School. This background then managed to motivate me to explain what I understand about leadership. It’s vital in life to give back to the community what was given to you by the community hence with a jovial mood in me I hope a lot of youth leaders will benefit from this.
It takes passion, dedication, hard work, determination and also humility in leadership. These leadership traits are what can make a person who leads be considered as a “good” leader. A good leader is also supposed to lead from the front providing a good example that his subjects or the one he leads can learn from.
There are some leaders who lack determination and that is indeed a ticket to a plane called failure. This is mainly because they fail to keep on going in times of hard experiences. If one is a leader the person is supposed to expect difficulties because that is what also helps one to improve – the most important factor is balancing leadership and other important aspects in life.
On this issue youth leaders like Headboys, councillors and Members of the Junior Parliament should know that their major objectives in high school is learning and then leadership comes second.
The teachers and many advisors always say you should create a balance. This is indeed important advice though some take it in the wrong sense. Balancing academics and leadership simply implies giving much time to the most important one not necessarily mean a fifty-fifty situation.
A real leader who is still at school should lead in both angles and is not supposed to follow while others lead. Leaders are chosen by God but they end up disobeying the one who chose them when power becomes sweet.
This explains why I strongly believe that a leader should be a God fearing person. When you are selected to be a headboy or junior MP it doesn’t mean that you should use it as a tool to get girls at school. The moment you start doing that God removes his anointing leading to your demise.
In summation the is a Ndebele statement that goes,”inkosi yinkosi ngabantu” in English that is a leader is a leader because of the people.
If you are a prefect, junior councillor or senator and you are guided by that statement you will be successful and you won’t be tyrannical like Hitler or Mussolini at your school.
Yes prefects at schools are considered to be the number one enemies of the people we lead but the important thing is to he considered an enemy for doing the right thing than doing bad.
To all the prospective Headboys and Headgirls as well as the prospective 2016 prefects boards of different schools I wish you a successful term in office.
The same to the current Members of parliament and Honourable Junior councillors. To my fellow former Headboys and councillors as well as other leaders I would like to say job well done. Prepare for the future coz once a leader always a leader.
Tinashe Anderson Maburu is a former Headboy of Mabvuku High School.He was also a junior councillor for Harare ward 20 and also stood as the secretary general of Model UN in the 2014 session and also was a Kenyan ambassador to the Model UN.
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