
South Africa sliding towards a “constitutional dictatorship”, warns ex-president Zuma
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER JACOB Zuma, the former South African president, has again attacked the country’s courts, warning that SA was heading towards a “constitutional dictatorship”. In a statement issued days after the Constitutional Court, the country’s highest court, dismissed his application to have his 15 month sentence set aside, Zuma repeated his attack on the judiciary, including his belief that the courts were out to get him In a majority judgment, the Constitutional Court rejected Zuma’s rescission application, describing it , among others, as “litigious skullduggery”. Zuma intends to take his case to the African Court on Human and People’s…