DA: We Love Trevor Manuel! 1
Knowing that the ANC will do whatever they can to piss off the DA, Trevor Manuel must be feeling his chance of going all the way to the presidency is getting slimmer and slimmer with every arrival of the DA weekly email newsletter.
Manuel is one of the few ANC top dogs to get praise from the DA and this weeks newsletter was no different, first starting off with a hearty congrats for getting GDP growth to 5.1% and then copiously quoting Manuel as if he was Helen Suzman guiding the DA down the correct path to take.
If Manuel is ever overlooked by the ANC in the presidential succession battle you can be damn sure that the DA will be sending non-stop gift baskets and flowers to the Manuel-Ramos household trying to get Manuel to jump to the DA. Not that it will ever happen but even Tony Leon’s got to have a dream right?
And his list of potential successors is rather lean at the moment.
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The DA’s interest in Trev is, as you say, intended both to indicate that we approve of his conservative and intelligent fiscus, and to annoy and disrupt the ANC. Nobody is under any illusions that he will cross to the DA though. UDF types like him never will: the ANC is his heart’s blood.
Now: Helen Zille is DA mayoral candidate for Cape Town.
Tony Leon’s list of potential successors is therefore not at all lean. That’s a serious problem for him. If Helen wins the Cape Town election and becomes mayor, she might very well lead the DA into the next general election.