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Richard Callland | Zuma's defiance is a grave moment for SA, but it's not a constitutional crisis


Jacob Zuma. (City Press, file)
Former president Jacob Zuma is in a corner and largely isolated so his only option is to cause disruption, even if it causes more division and conflict within the ANC, to give him some kind of bargaining power, writes
Richard Calland.
The attempt by former South African president Jacob Zuma to destabilise the country’s constitutional order, and defy the rule of law, does not constitute a constitutional crisis as some have claimed.
It is, nonetheless, a grave moment for modern South Africa and its fledgling democracy.
A former president who, as the Constitutional Court has pointed out, has a particular responsibility to respect the constitution even out of office, has chosen to defy an order from the highest court. This, while attacking the legitimacy of the judiciary and the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture led by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. ....

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