The judges are divided over a clean break from the apartheid past and cultural rights.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that the racial breakdown of particular areas must be factored in when jobs are redistributed in the public sector.
There are no legal grounds for counsel to refuse to take on a case but there are ethical issues that suggest that this should be revisited.
The Constitutional Court judgment has revealed a keen appreciation of the limits of state institutions.
The National Prosecuting Authority head’s move can be seen as a ‘Stalingrad defence’; he should have gone directly to the Constitutional Court.
Parliament’s inability to differentiate between itself, the state and the ruling party is shutting down free speech.
Nuanced debates are needed to have meaningful conversations about South Africa, 20 years into our democracy.
Commissions of inquiry rarely live up to the expectations of those who have demanded their establishment.
Surely the two judges cannot expect their very own judicial colleagues at the Constitutional Court to change an obviously correct precedent?
Concourt stated that Zuma might have been following wrong legal advice but that did not detract from the illegality of his conduct.