TONY LEON: ANC shares Tories’ economy-hurting fixation on ideology
One similarity between the ANC and the Conservatives is that a unrepresentative group picks the leader
During an English heat wave, I recently escaped London to lose myself in the bucolic Kent countryside near the picturesque town of Westerham. I was one of many Winston Churchill latter-day pilgrims on a visit to his country home at Chartwell. This was where he lived or visited for more than 40 years from 1922 until his death in 1965.
Churchill’s flawed but inarguable and rounded greatness offers so many insights and lessons in political leadership for his own country, our own and the wider world. In all places, at a critical confluence of cascading local and international crises, we see the rise of career place-holders and mediocrities, and professional and inauthentic populists rather than the real-deal statesmen and women in positions of power...
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