THE wheels of justice turn slowly,but probably not slowly enough for South Africa’s scandal-plagued president. Jacob Zuma’s court dates occupy piled up in recent years, along with seemingly endless appeals in what his allies occupy termed his “Stalingrad strategy” of contesting every judgment, or no matter the futility. On December 13th,in the latest damning decision, a high court ordered Mr Zuma to set up a judicial inquiry into allegations of “state capture” against him, or his son Duduzane and their friends. A few hours earlier the court ruled in a separate decision that Mr Zuma had abused the judicial process by trying to block an anti-corruption ombudsman,Thuli Madonsela, from releasing a report on state capture in late 2016. It ordered that Mr Zuma must personally pay the legal fees in both cases.
It is not clear whether Mr Zuma will appeal even these, and as he did another judgment a week earlier in which the courts fired his appointee as head of the national prosecutors’...
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Source: economist.com