Rasool was delivering the third annual Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Public Lecture at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape province, under the theme “Value-Based Leadership”.

He stressed that leaders must also be courageous and bold in speaking truth to power. “I think we both need intellectuals and intellectualism back into our politics. I think South Africa in the last decade or so has slid into anti-intellectualism. We don’t like the debate of ideas or engaging with ideas a lot of wrong things happen.”

Makgoba says elections allow citizens to exercise their rights, thereby improving their lives. 

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