MAKHUDU SEFARA | Commitment before commissions: democracy is not an easy ride

Chief justice Zondo misses the mark with his suggestion — we can’t keep creating parallel structures to avoid doing the hard work democracy requires

22 June 2023 - 22:07

Chief justice Raymond Zondo’s mistake when he calls for a permanent state capture commission of inquiry with subpoena powers, is to assume that simply because it happened, it was necessarily a success worth repetition...

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