Charles Molele
Two of South Africa’s most influential leaders – divided along ideological and partisan lines – hit the elections campaign trail on opposite ends this past week, after almost a decade in the ‘political wilderness’.
Thabo Mbeki, a struggle stalwart and the former president of the ANC and the republic, made a surprise appearance at the ANC’s pavilion to sign a pledge to vote for his party on 8 May at the general elections.
A few kilometres away in Eldorado Park, Tony Leon, a blue-blood liberal and the former president of the Democratic Alliance, joined the party’s leaders on a door-to-door campaign. His characteristic bluster, anger and virulent criticism against the ANC’s programme of the National Democratic Revolution including its policies of black economic empowerment, affirmative action and the government’s tendering system was fiery as usual.
The deployment of the two party veterans like Mbeki and Leon by their
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