Tony Leon

The DP has ruled out a coalition with the ANC since its pugnacious leader Tony Leon argues the country needs independent centres of power if democracy is to survive...

On 26 January for instance the pugnacious DP leader Tony Leon called for the suspension of Peter Mokaba the Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism after it had been reported that ex-MK member Colin Chauke whom police wanted to interview in connection with a bank robbery had been spotted partying at the junior minister's house...

Will Tony Leon's abrasive leadership of the Democratic Party succeed in politically annihilating the beleaguered National Party...

While Tony Leon's DP is likely to pick up votes from the NP's implosion it has been steadily boosting its (mainly white middle-class) support since 1994...

Since its poor showing in the 1994 elections (it won about 1 per cent of the vote less than Tony Leon's Democratic Party) it has lost its campaigning zeal and many of its key figures have moved closer to Mbeki...

Even Tony Leon's Democratic Party has congratulated Lekota on his leadership which created: 'a culture of consultation in the province introducing fiscal discipline...

Just like many Afrikaner voters Die Burger and Rapport regard Tony Leon and the Democratic Party as best qualified to defend their interests in the new South Africa...