Lincoln (Neb.) - Nov. 19, 2001 - One of the leaders in the transformation of South Africa from an apartheid state to a democracy will speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dec. 3.
Maj. Gen. Ashwin C. Hurribunce of the South African National Defence Force will deliver the lecture, "Collective Leadership: A Lesson from Africa," beginning at 2:30 p.m. in Room 143 of the College of Business Administration Building, 12th and R streets. The lecture and a 4 p.m. reception in the CBA Building are free and open to the public.
Trained as a physician, Hurribunce served Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military arm of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress, in various command positions in South Africa and outside the country from 1979 until 1993, when the organization was decommissioned. Hurribunce, who once served as Mandela's personal physician, joined the South African National Defence Force in 1994 and serves as its chief of joint training. In 1999, he was acknowledged as of the "Greatest Achievers of the 20th Century" by the Society of International Biographers.
Hurribunce's lecture will focus on the role of leadership in
transforming South Africa and the fashioning of the leadership styles of
the individuals at the forefront of that transformation (including
Mandela and Thabo Mbheki, the first two presidents of the "new" South
Africa). His visit was arranged by Bruce Avolio, who joined the Nebraska
faculty this fall as the Donald and Shirley Clifton chair in leadership,
a position created through the Othmer endowment.
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