What is a dictator?

Below is an extract of a conversation on the question: What is a Dictator that was posed in a WhatsApp group that is promoter by the C2C initiative to improve civics literacy in our communities.

What would make one individual so feared yet the created never intended to make humans u equal?

The sharing is part of the project to use conversations as a bridge to the quest to build a shared understanding on what leadership is and is not.

[3/31, 2:48 PM] +263 77 285 8337: Dictatorship league 😜😜
[3/31, 3:32 PM] Pharaoh Chimunoko: What is a dictatorship. How is one classified as a dictator?
[3/31, 9:02 PM] +263 77 285 8337: tyranny . Oppressive . Despotic …

… an independent analysis will show u that more than 50% of African states still practise it including Zimbabwe ..
[4/1, 6:30 AM] +263 77 344 9463: Is that type of leadership bad?
[4/1, 6:33 AM] Brian Manyati: It’s situationally good in the contingency approach to leadership and management.
[4/1, 6:34 AM] Brian Manyati: In other words, autocratic leadership is situationally bad.
[4/1, 7:19 AM] mdmawere1: The term dictator arises from illiteracy on what the blueprint and intended operation of human life is.

A tyrant exists through the agency of fatalistic and inactive citizens who through factors like civics illiteracy default to mode of dependency on a single mortal and fallible person surrounded by cheerleaders who thrive in opaque and unaccountable ecosystems.

Show me one so-called tyrant who has been able to cheat death or control the clock of life.

We (including you) have no choice but to hold these truths as self-evident that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL and endowed by the CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE rights, among these are LIFE, LIBERTY, and PROPERTY OR PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

If this is true, then one has to be slow in crediting another human being of being unequal in the gifts of nature that endowed to all.

Imagine trying to life controlling even one individual, then your own freedom will be undermined in the enterprise.

Sovereignty is endowed to the individual who through its exercise cannot be deprived and divested of it without the depriver loosing his own freedom.