PALI LEHOHLA | Judge Davis’s landmark judgment will have seismic consequences
Perpetrators of constitutional crimes were fixated on the trough and not the fast-coming horizon
The end of errors of commission and accidents waiting to happen through impunity might be nigh. Finally South Africa may relive its true value as stated in the constitution. The constitutional dream may yet to be lived and our nightmares may come to an end. Those who were beginning to wonder may now see that, indeed, it was always worth it. The judgment on load-shedding by judge Norman Davis and his full bench on Friday, November 1, as far as the instruction to secure power for institutions goes, represents a pyrrhic victory for the UDM and the litigants who enjoined it. This is because of the convergence of the deeply flawed governance of both political power and electrical power, whose momentum is now on steroids...
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