Members of the JSC were by and large woefully ill-prepared and failed in their duty to interrogate the four candidates rigorously and properly for the office of Chief Justice. It seemed that a lot of them were too focused on ingratiating themselves with Julius Malema, writes Pieter du Toit.
South Africa does not deserve the destructive and ill-tempered spectacle that this week passed for Judicial Service Commission (JSC) interviews for the vacant office of Chief Justice.