ZIYAD MOTALA | What has gone wrong with our Constitutional Court?

Recent judgments, not least its latest Zuma one, smack of personal predilections and politicking

19 August 2021 - 19:55 By Ziyad Motala

For many years, our Constitutional Court basked in glory. It was lauded worldwide. Its judgments were studied in legal academies around the world. Many of our judges were in demand to teach seminars on the court’s enlightening and rich jurisprudence. Our citizenry has been so preoccupied with inept and corrupt government that we have been inattentive to the performance and at times sloppy jurisprudence emanating from our highest court. The recent directive and rehearing of the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma, calling on the parties to make submissions on the implications of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPL), is a wake-up call...

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