THE JUDICIARY AND THE CONSTITUTION IN THE FIRING LINE

Responses to “Defrauding Parliament: NPA’s deadliest low-hanging fruit”

While I know and understand that the wheels of justice turn slowly (in most cases, too slowly), I wish I could fast forward two or three years, and read about all the politicians who have been imprisoned! Past tense. It is almost always about prosecutions that WILL happen... yet does this ever happen?? What’s happened to those cases from five?... eight?... years ago? Patience is a virtue... but crumbs, this is taking patience to a new level! Steve Smith

What I really want to say to you is that it is not the SA Constitution that must be seen as “the worst one” – rather I hold dear the words of Judge Zak Yacoob in his address to the SADC Lawyer’s Association regional solidarity webinar held on 7 October 2020. He states that: “It is laudable that many countries in the Southern African Development Community region do indeed have truly democratic constitutions. But – and this is a very big but – without an independent and impartial judiciary, an apparently wonderfully empowering Constitution is worth much less than the paper it’s written on.” It takes much more to just say that our Constitution is worthless –very worthwhile article to read in Daily Maverick of 10 October. June Petersen

More than anything, this article points out how the judicial system can be ‘manipulated’ by ‘smart’ legal minds, who ‘rise up’ (probably more like scum surfacing!) to the defence of patently corrupt individuals. This scum, instead of protecting the defrauded, line their own pockets from the proceeds of their well-heeled clients’ stolen loot. And… so the rot continues in an unvirtuous cycle of deceit! Kanu Sukha