Former DA leader Tony Leon during an interview on May 21, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.Picture: Gallo Images / City Press / Leon Sadiki
Critics have suggested that, like his successor Helen Zille, his exit from mainstream politics may have alienated a small, but powerful sect of the DA’s more conservative supporters. He completed his term there in January 2013 and upon his return to South Africa, he was awarded a fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.
“They approached me and said ‘we would really appreciate it if you would lend us a hand. We put our efforts in different parts of South Africa to propel us into the elections and [need] someone who has been passionately involved in the opposition project since the building of the DA and its predecessors,’” he explains.
Credited as a founding member of the DA, a marriage of conservative and liberal opposition parties in 2000, Leon was the longest-serving leader of South Africa’s official opposition, before serving the ANC government as an ambassador to Argentina between 2009, when he stepped down as DA leader, to 2012.
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