Chief Justice must stop acting like a politician

South Africa is lauded the world over for its robust constitutional order and a progressive Constitution.

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All that is good unless your name is Donald Trump, who believes in the figment that a genocide is underway against a group of white citizens in this country.

As the recent G20 Leaders' Summit showed, it is possible for a project to be successful even when there are fewer attendees, in this case, one dissenter.

The problem occurs when the list of objectors grows. This is where the Constitutional Court is unfortunately steadily creeping towards - significantly growing the list of dissenters.

A few days ago, Chief Justice Mandisa Maya made a bad decision in defending her court's failure to deliver judgment on Phala Phala, almost a year later, and she sounded like a smooth politician.