YOU couldn‘t make it up. Peering at the world through chic European spectacles, shod in Italian shoes, chauffeured in a German car and the beneficiary of R25-million from a US-listed mining house, National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete assailed Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema — and for even worse than being a “cockroach”. According to [...]
Amid the chaos of last week's state of the address, President Zuma rehashed old ideas that will do more harm than good to SA 19 Feb 2015 | Tony Leon | Original Publication: Rand Daily Mail Look beyond, if you can, the violent distractions on display in Parliament last week. Ignore even the curious head-dress [...]
Julius Malema has chosen to participate in Parliament, yet regards himself unbound by its rules and precedents, writes Tony Leon THURSDAY night’s debacle in Parliament reminded me of a spectacularly bad football match. Instead of focusing on the man with the ball, the spectators’ attention pivots to the activities away from the centrepiece — the [...]
What might have happened had PW Botha not succumbed to a stroke and handed power to his successor? 4 Feb 2015 | Tony Leon | Original Publication: Rand Daily Mail CHAOS, in local politics anyway, apparently spirals downward. Channelling their "inner EFF", ANC Cape Town city councillors last week decided to mimic their national foes [...]
