The Supreme Court of Appeal judgment means that South Africa’s president must be prosecuted - unless the national director of public prosecutions decides again to drop the charges against him.
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A survey asked Americans what they would do if the Supreme Court started making many unpopular decisions. Here’s what they said.
Brazil’s political and business elites are consumed by scandal, but the courts are hardly squeaky clean.
Three Mexican governors have been arrested in 2017 abroad after fleeing justice, and nearly 90% of the country’s citizens see the government as deeply corrupt.
The European Union is threatening to suspend the state’s voting rights if it pursues legislation to restrict its judiciary.
Presidents past have used this nearly limitless power to halt criminal prosecutions before. What’s to stop Trump?
Ousting an executive leader from office doesn’t always have the intended effect, as these examples from Central and South America show.
Beijing’s plans for Hong Kong aren’t going down well with all its post-colonial subjects.
Laws that limit presidential power won’t enforce themselves – Congress must act.
A new bill gives the immigration minister a range of new powers that relate to various aspects of the citizenship acquisition process.
The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
Argentineans are determined to not forgive or forget the criminals who killed or disappeared more than 30,000 people.
South Africa’s social grants fiasco begs the question: was it orchestrated to undermine the judiciary and the constitution and hide sheer incompetence on the part of government?
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is in a fix. The only way to deliver social grants that support millions would be through a process that’s without validation, would be unlawful and invalid.
Torture is the ultimate abuse of state power over the individual. If the US returns to using it, all hell could break loose.
There’s a whole system of checks and balances in place to stop a president like Trump going too far.
South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority charged the country’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan and two of his former colleagues at the tax authority, Ivan Pillay and Oupa Magashule, with fraud last…
It’s easy for foreign businesses in China to misstep when they don’t understand the lack of a rule of law and the influence of the government.
The electorate and those involved in public governance should focus more on how judges are appointed. This is because they need to make sure that individuals of the highest quality get the job.
The fact that businesses cannot accurately calculate the cost of doing business in Nigeria because of corruption makes them jittery.But it doesn’t mean Nigeria is more corrupt than any other country.
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
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Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance, University of Cape Town
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Instructor, Legal Studies and Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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Reader in Law, City St George's, University of London
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Law, UNSW
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology