Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Cry the South African judiciary

In the past 3 weeks the judges of the Constitutional Court in South Africa issued a statement claiming to have lodged a complain with the Judicial Services Commission about one Judge Hlophe trying to influence them on pending decision involving Jacob Zuma's cases.

When the JSC met it emerged that the Judges had not actually submitted the complain and they requested time to go and draft the complain then submit it really now.

The judiciary has lost confidence in itself in that country. It relies on the media to make judgements for it.

It seems the logic is that because the judges are going to pass a definitive judgement, the media has perpetual non-judgement and hence sustains a bad name of the accused person.