The 14 days post the national election where negotiations get under way to form a new government might make the current campaign rhetoric seem like a period of fondly remembered calm and tranquillity, writes Tony Leon.
The late Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, who led the official opposition in Parliament from 1979 until his resignation in 1986, was critical of my term of office in the same position.
At the time of my own resignation, years later in 2007, he suggested that my political and parliamentary style was "pure Westminster".