The delay in President Jacob Zuma filling critically important judicial posts raises concerns about ‘court capture’, writes Carmel Rickard. You have to wonder exactly how President Jacob Zuma is spending his time these days. Apart from giving cringe-worthy interviews to foreign media, he’s little in evidence. He doesn’t much go to parliament even, where the cut and thrust of parliamentary politics is clearly proving too much for him. He has also been notably absent from any leadership role during the campus violence of the past weeks. And he isn’t signing legislation either: the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Bill languishes, and if he doesn’t take out his pen and use it, or refer the bill back to the National Assembly on the grounds that there’s something wrong with it, then hostile litigation awaits him, with questions about neglect of his clear constitutional duty and perhaps even another dressing down by the courts. Arguably even more important than these, however, is t...
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