And back to Zuma

Yes yes I'm hearing you say quit it with the bladdy politics already. Whatever! JZ just won't stop.

I have always maintained that there can be no real reason to be genuinely worried about one's future in our beautiful SA until one or both of the following things happens:

• You or someone you love is harmed by crime. Such an experience fundamentally alters your outlook on life in SA.
• The independence, legitimacy, and authority of our courts come under attack from the ruling party, which has the power to change or at least seriously undermine the constitution. See I avoided saying 'rule of law' again.
  

The former hasn't really happened to me so I've never been genuinely worried.

But last year Gwede Mantashe, Sec. Gen. of the ANC, started hurling abuse at Con Court judges, questioning their objectivity in the Zuma issue (via the Hlope issue). No specific action plans, but a fair amount of emotion and anger. Ok, so Gwede was caught on a bad day. The incident was sort of brushed aside.

But now that Zuma is 'free', he's gone a step further:

"In an astonishing attack on judges, President-in-waiting Jacob Zuma has blasted the conduct of the judiciary and questioned the supremacy of the Constitutional Court as the highest court in the land, saying it is ‘not God’. According to a Cape Times report, he also accused Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke of declaring war against the ANC, and harshly criticised other judges who ruled against him in his corruption court appearances. Zuma said he wanted a review of the status of the Constitutional Court, because its judges were capable of committing mistakes. ‘If I sit here and I look at a Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, that is the ultimate authority. I think we need to look at it, because I don't think we should have people who are almost like God in a democracy… Why are they not human beings?’ The report notes that he said the JSC should review the status of the Constitutional Court. Zuma added that the impression had been created that Constitutional Court judges could not make mistakes. ‘That's why I am saying they are almost close to God…’"

Just who the fuck do you think you are Jacob Zuma?