Letters Correspondent

Now that our esteemed judges have finally ruled in line with what the rest of the South African public seem to understand to be fair and just with regards to ANC president Jacob Zuma's trial: Let us hope this matter does not have to go through the Supreme Court or Constitutional Court before it is recognised that Zuma has been the prime cause of delay in his own case. There should be no reason why our judges cannot conduct a fair trial going forward.

Meanwhile the rest of us will sit and wonder how JZ's partner, in his alleged crime, Schabir Shaik is doing 15 years while Zuma is about to get away scott free. Perhaps some apologist within the legal fraternity or the ANC can at least try convince us that every person is equal before the law, that the justice system has not simply become a system that allows lawyers to make obscene amounts of money through deceitful interpretation and manipulation of the law at the expense of justice, and that there is some common sense and consistency that prevails in our judiciary system.

I doubt there is a single person who holds the judiciary in the same regard as in the past. The judgments passed down are just so far apart it is astounding. Not to mention the Cape Judge President John Hlophe saga...

Brad Hayman
Fish Hoek