weekly newspaper.
South Africa finds itself in the midst of a perfect storm and the judiciary is in the eye of that storm.
The context is multilayered but central to it is former president Jacob Zuma’s defiance of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. The matter is now within the remit of the Constitutional Court. Unusually, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng asked Zuma to submit suggestions as to what kind of sanction he should face for defying the Constitutional Court’s order that he testify at the Commission. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in reply, Zuma has taken a sheet out of his old playbook.