Instead, the 2012 model is essentially bottom up, voluntary and leader-driver.
He was mercilessly exposed by the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield in his 1991 documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, followed in 2006 by His Big White Self.
The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife was about the rightwing Nazi party in South Africa, made before Mandela came to power – and I called it a black comedy about the white right.
Last year he went back to see how Terre'Blanche and the other principals from that first film, The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, have adjusted to life in the "rainbow nation".
In fact, in Broomfield's arguably best work, The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife, although he goaded South African neo-Nazi Eugene Terre Blanchee into fury, it wasn't the director but the cameraman, Barry Ackroyd, who got a fist in the face during filming.
The question is whether Broomfield - a man who has previously done brilliant work (The Leader, His Driver and The Driver's Wife) and utter, conspiratorial garbage (Kurt & Courtney) - is truly qualified to demand answers of something that must surely rate as the 21st century's My Lai.
And the only way you can feel deeply enough about it is if it's bloody well happening to you.' It's this combination - the self-awareness and the politics and the intimate relationship with his subjects - that's the hallmark of his best work: Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer, for example, and his breakthrough film, The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife But I agree with Ethel.
Departures are 22 July, 5 and 19 August and 16 December, and cost from £2,839 per adult (£2,524 per child), including return flights, accommodation, meals, transport and a tour leader and driver.
During his time as county council leader, Mr Driver signed off a £5m fleet contract awarded to BT.
Conservative leader Geoff Driver is alleged to have become angry and physical as he tried to grab some papers from Bill Winlow.
