Tony Leon

Within minutes of the President's announcement on 10 February of the April election date DA leader Tony Leon was on his feet in the National Assembly in Cape Town with the cry 'bring it on' relishing the prospect of the media limelight...

Elsewhere Inkatha's uneasy alliance with the mainly white Democratic Party under Tony Leon won't threaten the ANC...

Economists such as Stellenbosch's Professor Sampie Terreblanche the socialist-orientated trades union federation the Congress of SA Trade Unions and Tony Leon's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) argue that the lives of black South Africans have deteriorated since apartheid ended...

Other guests were Inkatha Freedom Party leader and the Minister of Home Affairs Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi ex-President Frederik Willem de Klerk and Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon (each of these has his own reservations about the BI)...

Of the five potential KZN defectors two were from Inkatha two from the mainly white Democratic Alliance (DA) led by Tony Leon one from the predominantly Xhosa United Democratic Movement (UDM) led by Bantu Holomisa...

Tony Leon's mainly white Democratic Alliance periodically tries to woo Inkatha into an opposition alliance...

The ANC's advantage is mainly due to opposition incompetence; the biggest personal loser is the DA's Tony Leon (45) whose energetic and pragmatic leadership once rattled the government...

With Morkel and the DA fundraisers embroiled in the Harksen scandal Tony Leon's party is foundering...

Some predictably are Mbeki's die-hard opponents such as the Democratic Party's Tony Leon; others are sometime allies such as the Congress of South African Trade Unions; yet others are even closer to home such as Mbeki's brother Moeletsi who argued in December for Pretoria to pull the plug on Zimbabwe's economy...

The DP led by Tony Leon contributed fresh ideas debating skills and 38 seats in parliament...

Tony Leon's opposition Democratic Alliance (AC Vol 41 No 25) which includes members and ex-ministers from the old apartheid National Party has been attacking the ANC leadership over the issue though those involved in the arms deal cut across party lines...