LEON HAD TEETH - MBEKI

Wow! Words of praise indeed! I didn't think that Mbeki could be pleasant to someone he so openly despised in the media! Well I guess stranger things have happened in life.

On a lighter note - Mbeki, being the 'ladies' man, that he so obviously is - there was recently a write up in the papers about Mbeki 'fixing' Helen collar, and the head line, if memory serves me correctly, was something about whether it was appropriate or not. My 'knee jerk' reaction to that would be - if Helen Zille were a black woman or a man, for that matter, would he have done the same thing - I think not! If that is the case, then his familiarity was definitely not appropriate!

I wait with bated breath however, to see where this new 'relationship' goes!

Remember as I said before - strange things happen!

Leon had teeth - Mbeki
February 15 2007 at 03:39PM

President Thabo Mbeki paid tribute to outgoing Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Thursday, saying his "lively engagement" would be missed in the National Assembly." From where I sit, I would never have the courage to argue that he served merely as a Chihuahua, because, indeed, he has the bark of a bull terrier," he said during his response to debate on last week's state-of-the-nation address. "I am certain that all of us will miss his lively engagement as a party leader in the public debate that must and will continue, whatever our views about the rights and wrongs of the arguments he advanced, and the manner in which he advanced those arguments.

"I wish the DA success as it engages the process to elect a successor, whom I am certain, will be no less a defender of the mandate of the DA and its supporters than is the Honourable Tony Leon."I am certain that whatever else he does having voluntarily surrendered the leadership of the DA, he will succeed. Should he need a helping hand, which I doubt, we are nevertheless ready to lend that hand. Tony, best wishes," Mbeki said. Leon is set to step down as DA leader in May 2007. - Sapa