In real life, Professor Balthazar is one South Africa's foremost legal minds. He chooses to remain anonymous, so it doesn't interfere with his daily duties.
From the gallons of ink used to make sense of the horrendous week that engulfed South Africa, the editorial in
Daily Maverick most eloquently captured the consequences. Constitutional democracy hangs by a thread and is unlikely to be protected, let alone enhanced, unless the internecine warfare within the ruling party is resolved speedily in favour of the constitutionalists within the party, and decisive action is taken to harness the obvious desire of the majority to eschew populism.