TONY LEON: Why Maimane must act swiftly against Zille
'If the reputation of the party is harmed from within, he has to act swiftly to put it to rights'
Here is an excerpt of a report from a weekend newspaper:“The government has been in crisis in court over the delivery of 17million social grants, for a contract that should never have been contemplated. The president placed a new football in front of the leader of the opposition and sent the goalkeeper home. And the opposition leader failed to score.” Actually, let me confess, I panel-beat this quotation, which originally appeared in the Financial Times on Saturday. The original referred to the lamentably ineffective leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, and the potential own goal provided by prime minister Theresa May and her ever-changing policy on national health insurance. Corbyn is incapable of putting it in the net. Even when he faces no opposition.
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