LAWFARE: Running The Country through Courts, a recipe for disaster for ANC and RFP

Staff reporter

Johannesburg – While Russian President, Vladimir Putin has indicated he will not attend the BRICS summit in August following the application in Gauteng High Court by the Democratic Alliance, this is a huge victory for the DA.

On Tuesday the Gauteng High Court ordered President Cyril Ramaphosa to make his affidavit public, all eyes are now on Friday when a ruling on the matter is expected to be heard.

News that Putin will not be coming to the summit as the court was likely to rule in favor of the DA on that South Africa has a legal obligation to arrest Putin as a signatory to the Rome statued, this was going to have unintended consequences politically and economically had Putin insisted on coming.

The US was likely to put sanctions on South Africa while the Russians were going to declare war on South Africa.

This mess shows how the ANC is not interested in dealing with ICC seven years after Al Bashir’s saga when the court ordered his arrest and he was not arrested.

The ANC resolved to leave ICC in the 2017 conference only to make a U-turn in the 2022 conference in Nasrec.

What the ANC may not be aware of is how it’s always misusing its majority to defend everything in National Assembly based on party lines, its risking the lawfare which the DA and EFF are championing because there is no other platform but the courts.

The same goes for NGOs like Helen Suzanne Foundation, AfriFirum, and others. Case in point, Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) and of course, government lost.

Even the judges said, “you are running the country through the courts”.

In Lesotho it’s the same thing, the ruling Revolution For Prosperity (RFP) led by businessman-turned-politician, Sam Matekane is facing his third court challenge having lost two already.

His government terminated contracts of Principal Secretaries and they dragged government to court, the government has to settle them out of court. The constitutional court then delivered another blow in the illegal confiscation of phones of Machesetsa Mofomobe, leader Basotho National Party (BNP) and Moeketsi Shale of Democratic Congress (DC).

The apex court went as far as declaring the NSS act unconstitutional and both Mofomobe and Shale are suing the state combined R12 millions.

Now Mofomobe is threatening to take government to court over new gun law which according to him it is “discriminatory”.

To have a licence firearm mosotho will need to have 100 sheep or three cars as if only those with sheep and cars are vulnerable to crime.

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