Tony Leon Columnist

Tony Leon is the executive chairman of Resolve Communications, an SA consultancy specialising in crisis communications, reputation management, government relations and advocacy. He is a noted author, columnist and speaker, and a former SA ambassador and political party leader.

Tony Leon Columnist
TONY LEON | The ANC invents a sixth stage of grief

Ntshavheni’s combination of stages one and two of grief plunged most thinking folk into stage four — depression, writes Tony Leon

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TONY LEON | The eerie silence after the weekend’s twin events in Cape Town has ...

The pro-Palestinian march proceeded peacefully and without interruption. By contrast, the rally for Israel was violently disrupted before its ...

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TONY LEON | Try as he may, Ramaphosa is no Kolisi ... or Mandela

There was something phoney about Monday night’s free promotion of the government’s ‘successes’.

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TONY LEON | Can Poland's PiSed-off voters show SA the way?

The wider world of politics and elections offers some useful pointers for the potholed road to 2024 in South Africa, writes Tony Leon.

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TONY LEON | SA’s economic crisis began gradually and then suddenly it was upon ...

The costs of government borrowing to fund its limitless appetites is turning our economy into a dystopian horror show

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TONY LEON | Festooned with crater-like potholes, Winnie Mandela Drive is a ...

The renaming of William Nicol Drive is perhaps a fitting commemoration of Winnie Mandela’s ‘tattered legacy’

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TONY LEON | Editing history to escape the truth

Courtesy of 'retcon' and the delete key, the hard truths and inconvenient facts will be cherry-picked to absurd lengths or explained as 'unfortunate ...

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TONY LEON | Prince Buthelezi’s death has triggered some hypocrisy, amnesia and ...

Depending on which part of the political spectrum you look from, Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s legacy will range from dignified statesman to warlord

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TONY LEON | Maladministration and infrastructural neglect at the core of Joburg ...

City and government officials have blamed NGOs, apartheid and illegal immigrants for the tragic fire in Joburg’s CBD but not themselves ...

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TONY LEON | Yikes! The moonshot pact is run from a pizza shop basement

As a Brics scene-stealer, it was hard to beat the offstage and out-of-the-sky antics of Pretoria’s absent friend, Vladimir Putin, writes Tony Leon