Briefing Paper 543 – Assessing the Judicial Service Commission by Mike Pothier

During the period of State Capture, roughly coinciding with the Zuma administration’s term of office, it was regularly asserted that the judiciary was ‘the last bastion’ preventing the complete collapse of the rule of law and a descent into kleptocracy and a failed state. There were other such bastions, including our vigorous media and our active civil society sector, but the role played by the courts in upholding the Constitution, and thereby largely preventing that collapse, is clear.

BP 543 Assessing the Judicial Service Commission by Mike Pothier