The first thing that strikes me about the Constitutional Court judgment in the main Zuma application is that it was not unanimous. Justice Sandile Ngcobo dissented and would have found in favour of Zuma and Thint. Given the extraordinary political implications of the judgment, it is fair to assume that the Chief Justice would have [...]
Posts under ‘Dikgang Moseneke’
Should the JSC hearings be in public?
Newspaper reports suggest that neither the Chief Justice, nor Judge President John Hlophe, has decided yet whether they would support a decision by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) for the hearings on the complaints by the Constitutional Court and Cape Judge President to be held in public. I can very much understand why both parties [...]
What happens when 5 judges retire?
Next year five judges of the Constitutional Court will come to the end of their 15 year term and will have to retire. These are Chief Justice Pius Langa and Justices Kate O’Regan, Albie Sachs, Yvonne Mgoro and Tollie Madala. Justices O’Regan, Sachs and Mokgoro have been consistently the most progressive voices on the court [...]
Zille, Zillier, Zilliest
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille has been very successful at cultivated the image of a no-nonsense, straight-shooting politician that sticks to her principles – no matter what. Her party has over the years also (rightly) lambasted the ANC for covering up the arms deal corruption and for making statements aimed at undermining the independence [...]
ANC pulls back from the brink on Moseneke
It is with immense relief that I read the news that the ANC has now retracted its earlier unwise and intemperate attack on Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke. “Having listened to Justice Moseneke’s account of his speech and the context of his remarks, the ANC accepts that no ill was intended,” an ANC statement said.
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