Tony Leon Quotations

Today local government is in a state of crisis. If we continue this way, South Africa will fail.

The big men and women of government live in a safe and luxurious bubble and have no idea what ordinary South Africans go through every day.

We offer Afrikaans-speaking voters a chance to stand alongside other South Africans as equals, a chance to be a part of building a new nation, a chance to be part of a proud, non-racial, growing party.

We will help the poor. We will stop corruption. We will accelerate delivery.

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

When change does not happen and bread and butter issues tackled -- people become cynical and disillusioned.

No more back-door tenders. No more closed-door meetings. We are going to open all portfolio committees, executive committees and council meetings to the media and the public.

And like a cancer, corruption and mismanagement are destroying delivery, spreading to every level of government.

This is the legacy of 45 years of National Party rule... Now is the time for a new government that has the will and the support of the majority to address the imbalances created by the apartheid system,

The good and great thing about NEPAD is it actually says here we are, we're standing on our own two feet as Africans. We are prepared to engage the world on the terms of the world.