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Busisiwe Mkhwebane has sought to cast herself as a "protector" of South Africa's people and its Constitution. But Karyn Maughan and Jan Gerber write her refusal to accept any rulings against her represents a clear threat to the rule of law.
Justice Sisi Khampepe's contempt ruling against former president Jacob Zuma begins with a crucial reminder: Like all things in life, like the best of times and the worst of times, litigation must, at some point, come to an end.
In a majority ruling that found Zuma should be imprisoned for his defiance of the apex court's order that he appear before the State Capture Inquiry, Khampepe stressed "the principles of legal certainty and finality of judgments are the oxygen without which the rule of law languishes, suffocates and perishes".
