President Cyril Ramaphosa has seemingly tried his best to treat the courts in a very different way from his predecessor, Jacob Zuma, by repeatedly choosing to bow out of politically contentious and potentially unwinnable cases and frequently leaving courts to decide the best way forward. Ramaphosa is trying, it appears, to develop a litigation style that is the antithesis of the Stalingrad strategy that defined the Zuma presidency. So when he indicates that he is considering an appeal to a ruling, it is worth interrogating. At first glance, the response of Ramaphosa’s office to a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal last week — it dismissed his challenge to an order that the record of Zuma’s decision to fire former finance minister Pravin Gordhan must be handed over to the DA — seems misplaced. The DA has abandoned its challenge to Gordhan’s removal and is therefore no longer seeking the "fake intelligence report" with which Zuma reportedly justified that ill-fated decision.Even th...
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