Image: Uhuru Kenyatta/Flickr December 5, 2014 -- The ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has announced her decision to withdraw charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya. Her decision came after the Trial Chamber [5B], on 3 December 2014, declined...
IMAGE: Flickr/University of the North West Earlier this week, I wrote on Daily Maverick about a heated battle between the Ministry of Justice and the Judiciary in South Africa. The Chief Justice, the Head of the Judiciary in the terms of the Constitution...
IMAGE CREDIT: Helen Riding, Wikimedia Commons Last week, Ms Pansy Tlakula handed in her resignation to President Jacob Zuma as Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). I will not go about explaining the series of events that ultimately...
Many South Africans from all corners of the country have expressed an annoyance at the African National Congress' (ANC) apparent attack on the Public Protector, Ms Thuli Madonsela. The ANC is arguing that the Public Protector is not doing her work in compliance...
It is unfortunate that after twenty years of constitutional democracy our country is still inundated with uncertainties and misgivings over the extent of the Public Protector’s mandate. I say it is “unfortunate” not because disagreements and confrontations,...
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