19th September 2008

Vol 49 N0 19

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South Africa SOUTH AFRICA

Politicians versus judges

Acting Judge Chris Nicholson’s bitterest swipe was his comparison of President Thabo Mbeki’s campaign to sideline rival Jacob Zuma to that of apartheid governments using legislation and state institutions to prosecute political opponents. ‘Many activists, fighting against the apartheid system, languished for many years behind bars as a result of prosecutions at the instance of the executive. It is of grave concern that this process has taken place in the new South Africa, given the ravages that it caused under the apartheid order.’...

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