The state's successful appeal against the verdict in the Oscar Pistorius case brings the quality of work done by South African high court judges back under public scrutiny.
This is not a new phenomenon in South Africa. But underlying the debate is much more than the quality of the country's judges. It is also about race and gender. South Africa's judiciary remains dominated by men and has a higher proportion of white judges compared to the country's race demographics.
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