NJONGONKULU NGUNGANE: 'Dlamini's arrogance is breathtaking'
'The fact that it has come to this underlines the moral bankruptcy of the Zuma regime'
A previous version of this article incorrectly identified Archbishop Desmond Tutu as the author. We apologise for the error. South Africa owes a debt of gratitude to the independence of the judiciary in general and in particular to its esteemed Constitutional Court. I say this following the stern judgment handed down this morning by the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg that has effectively rescued the South African government’s inept oversight of social grant payouts from total disaster. Indeed, it could be argued that it has rescued the country from the worst constitutional crisis it has faced since 1994. Most importantly, it has acted without fear or favour in the interests of millions of people who have no other means to live other than through the social grants, which, in terms of a regime that recognises the need for such grants, is sound. But our government, as the Constitutional Court suggested, almost derailed this. As a long-standing champion of the poor, I do not unde...
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