In the weeks since the provisional ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on South Africa’s genocide claim against Israel, unforgiving attention has been focused on the trustworthiness, or otherwise, of one of the four United Nations entities on whose evidence the court relied.
The rule of law, and democracy in South Africa, are threatened by the flawed reasoning and phoney criteria on the part of some members of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) in their deliberations on the suitability of Gauteng High Court Judge David Unterhalter as a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judge.