Tony Last was elected Party Administrator at the Founding Meeting of the South African Business Party held at Somerset West on 8 November 2005.    Tony was born in Johannesburg in 1957, the son of a Pharmacist and housewife.    W. Last (Pty) Ltd Chemists, run by Tony's father and grandfather, was the first Homeopathic pharmacy in the Transvaal. Tony worked in the pharmacy during school holidays but his interests lay elsewhere.

Tony attended school at De La Salle College in Victory Park, Johannesburg, where he was a prefect and obtained the Most Outstanding Pupil of the Year Award in his final year, 1974.    Tony always had an inclination towards the Black people who crossed his path, assisting the poor and hungry by delivering blankets and food to those in need. During one of his study walks in the veld, Tony discovered a Black man lying in the grass. Upon closer inspection he noticed the man had been stabbed in the chest. Tony ran home, called the ambulance, went back to nurse the man until help arrived, paid the R10 ambulance fee, and ensured the man was properly placed into the ambulance and would be looked after.    Tony has always had a natural support for those treated unjustly by the apartheid system or by the prejudice of an arrogant heart, and can be observed from time to time correcting an injustice or a disrespectful word or deed.    Although less intense, the discrimination practiced by the ruling party in the 1970s and 80s against English-speaking White South Africans helped to give Tony a strong empathy for the Black person who suffered a legal form of this discrimination in the face of apartheid.    Tony studied at the Wesleyan College in Brakpan from 1975 to 1977, and delivered a message of hope and encouragement in Zulu before a church gathering in Daveyton after 16 June 1976. Subjects in the curriculum included Theology, Zulu, Psychology, Anthropology, Parliamentary Procedure and Accounting. His physical duties included outdoor sweeping, weeding, making roof trusses, fitting IBR sheeting onto buildings, scaffold sanding and painting work. For sport, jogging, volleyball and table tennis were played.    In 1978 and 1979, Tony attended compulsory military training in Bloemfontein and Doornkop, but this was army training with a difference. He was fully trained for combat and to teach, and he and his liberal-minded co-soldiers ran the Alafang Secondary School in Katlehong along with two other Black teachers for more than a year, providing a top-level standard of education and a wonderful experience of mutual respect and trust between learner and teacher. During this time Tony started to study towards his first BA degree (in Zulu and Psychology) which included subjects like, Southern Sotho and Economics.    In 1980, Tony joined JCI as a Geophysical Field Officer and lived in caravans in the bush with various colleagues from Mohlakeng and elsewhere whilst working in Somkhele District, Zululand (near Hlabisa) for 3 months, with Herero and Ovambo staff in Otjiwarongo District, Namibia for 6 months and in other places around South Africa.    In 1983, Tony joined a construction company which built garage and 2 room structures in Soweto, and afterward started his own company doing the same thing, when the first company stopped building. In the next 5 years Tony would meet with and interview over 1000 families in their homes in Soweto to assist them with their housing needs. Tony still has contact with several of these clients who became good friends. Through Tony's company hundreds of people from all backgrounds became staff members and subcontractors for several years and earned good money building their lives for the future. Over 1000 homes doubled their living space with the quality permanent units that were built. Unfortunately bond boycotts and unwilling financial institutions forced the company to eventually close.    It was during this time that several youths chased Tony from a client in Diepkloof Zone 4, Soweto, where he was measuring a site to build, driving a drum under his vehicle, slashing the back left tyre and stoning the car as he managed to drive away unharmed.    1987/88, Tony negotiated with the Soweto City Council (set up by the apartheid government) and succeeded in convincing them to continue issuing "Annexure C's" so the people could continue to purchase their houses from the council for some R750.00 and in this manner achieve home ownership and the pride and advancement that can provide.    In 1993, Tony was busy starting a non-profit housing project in "Harare", Khayelitsha, Western Cape, with various stakeholders, like SANCO, when his vehicle was stoned and destroyed by some 800 students hurling rocks and blocks of concrete in Spine Road during "Operation Vala". Miraculously, Tony emerged unhurt, but every window in his vehicle was smashed except for the one in the door next to his face. His picture appeared in The Argus with the damaged vehicle.    This did not deter Tony, and he continued to assist several people from "Harare" and elsewhere to register and start their own construction businesses.    Currently, Tony runs and manages a tax and accounting consultancy as well as a website creation agency. He assists thousands of clients country-wide and internationally with business and tax matters, and in particular helps people to set up and run small businesses.    As Administrator of the SABP, it is Tony's intention, in accordance with the Party's Constitution, to make the SABP the leading party in South Africa.

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