Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said an independent judiciary would be able to solve problems such as load shedding and dilapidated court buildings more effectively.
In 2020, a student named Modibe Modiba tweeted a laughable pack of lies: that Daily Maverick had offered to pay him a secret stipend to write articles taking a certain position. The high court has now ruled that Modiba’s claims were ‘patently false and defamatory’.