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If Jacob Zuma was able to hire and fire judges at will, as he did with the heads of the National Prosecuting Authority, the Hawks, SARS and state-owned entities, it must be assumed that the judiciary would simply have ended up as yet another instrument at his personal disposal, writes Chelsea Ramsden.
By now, most, if not all of us, have at least a basic idea of what the Constitutional Court's ruling in Secretary of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State vs Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (the contempt case) is all about.
In essence, it is the result of ex-president Zuma's refusal to appear and testify before the state capture commission, which has been investigating the myriad of corrupt activities and the near-total gutting of our state institutions under his presidency. Years of unchecked corruption and greed are slowly being brought to the surface at the commission and Mr Zuma obviously decided that it was not in his interests to make an appearance.
