SA’s precious independent judiciary is sleepwalking into disaster

17 October 2021 - 00:01

We’ve become so cocksure about the independence of our judiciary — believing our own spin — that we seem oblivious of the storms gathering against it. We're sleepwalking into a disaster, just like the proverbial frog unaware the water is boiling until it’s too late...

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