South Africa: Are Judges in South Africa Under Threat or Do They Complain Too Much?

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Next week, South African President Jacob Zuma will sit down with its chief justice for an unprecedented, potentially watershed discussion.

It would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall to observe how the country's two most important constitutional office-holders handle a very sensitive conversation about a very delicate topic: judicial independence.

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