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Earlier this week, Wheels24 published a letter from a reader who had been assaulted by metro police officers in 2008. Thirteen years later and she still suffers the consequences of that traumatic day, including her daughter who was with her in the car.
Daily Maverick’s regular columnist on matters legal, known only by his or her
nom de plume “Professor Balthazar”, has strayed from the paths of constitutionalism in a column, published on 14 January, to which this response is akin to a trout rising to a well-cast fly on a tranquil pond.
Here is the problem with the anti-lawfare attitude of the learned professor: when SA turned its back on the parliamentary sovereignty of the apartheid era and replaced its more odious features with a supreme Constitution which itself regards the rule of law as supreme, a fundamental change in the system of governance in SA was made (judging by the portrait of an ageing Einstein lookalike that Balthazar uses, it is safe to assume that these changes occurred long after the professor left law school.)