Chief Justice Mogoeng to meet Zuma over Bashir ruling row

09 July 2015 - 13:26
By Reuters

South Africa's president and its top judge are to meet to try to resolve an intensifying row between the government and the judiciary over the state's failure to detain Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir last month. Government officials say judges are biased against the state and the ruling ANC has said some were driven to "create chaos" and were guilty of "judicial overreach", naming the Cape High Court and the high court in Pretoria that heard the Bashir case.

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