The Judiciary and Politics

By Shameela Seedat
When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) meets later this year to consider who will replace four titans of the Constitutional Court when their terms expire this October, it will be one of the first real opportunities to assess where our courts stand since this year’s election.
The departing judges are Pius Langa, Yvonne Mokgoro, [...]

Politics Trumps Justice? Zuma and the NPA

The piecemeal manner in which the NPA has chosen to deal with these issues has unfortunately left many questions unresolved and has also posed a raft of new questions. Foremost among these is whether we will ever definitively know Jacob Zuma’s guilt or innocence, and whether the NPA’s unpersuasive ‘policy’ rationale is indicative of another instance of inappropriate political pressure trumping purely legal considerations?