This analysis examines the judiciary's role in addressing poverty and inequality in South Africa, suggesting essential reforms.
The sensitivity and slowness inherent in the separation of powers are a reality in South Africas relatively new constitutional democracy, where the persistent socioeconomic ills of poverty, inequality and unemployment and their often-violent symptoms are aggravated by years of corruption and misrule giving rise to mounting social discontent.
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