These are the last Segments – the Sixth and Seventh Segments – of our chat as Sikhakhane SC dives deeper into various key issues that he tackles in his book, Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate.

In this last conversation Adv Sikhakhane SC discusses the State Capture (or Zondo) Commission and how the decision not to file answering papers in the Commission’s application to have President Zuma declared in contempt of the Constitutional Court and committed to prison.

We also touch on the sealing of the CR17 record – the keeping of Public Protector Mkhwebane’s rule 53 record on the PhalaPhala investigation from public scrutiny

Specifically, some of the following issues come up:

• Did the Zuma legal team “walk out” of the Zondo Commission?
• Was the purpose of the Zondo Commission to unearth the truth?
• What is the true test for truth-seeking?
• Who made the decision to defy the Constitutional Court order for Zuma to appear again at the Zondo Commission?
• Whose decision was it for Zuma not to oppose the Zondo Commission’s application to have him committed to prison for not appearing (again) at the Zondo Commission?
• Why did the Zondo Commission force Zuma to appear before it (again) on pain of imprisonment for refusing to appear, but refuse Fraser the opportunity to appear and cross examine his accusers and present his own version?
• Was the CR17 review record sealed by agreement?

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This is the Fifth Segment of Seven.

In the Seven Segments, Sikhakhane SC dives deeper into various key issues that he tackles in his book, Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate.

In this Fifth Segment Adv Sikhakhane SC discusses the State Capture (or Zondo) Commission.

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This is the Fourth Segment of Seven.

In the Seven Segments, Sikhakhane SC dives deeper into various key issues that he tackles in his book, Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate.

In this Fourth Segment Sikhakhane SC discusses his views generally about the South African Judiciary and specifically about how it tends to be influenced by the “dominant narrative” and inconsistent findings depending on the identity of the litigant.

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This is the Third Segment of Seven.

In the Seven Segments, Sikhakhane SC dives deeper into various key issues that he tackles in his book, Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate.

In this Third Segment we go behind the scenes of the complaint by Judges of the Constitutional Court against Western Cape Judge President Mandlakayise John Hlophe in 2008, which later culminated in his impeachment in February 2024.

• What exactly triggered the Concourt judges’ complaint against Judge President Hlophe?
• Who was the real force behind this complaint?
• Why was the complaint brought back to life after it had already been resolved by the Judicial Service Commission in 2009?
• Why did Adv Sikhakhane SC, who was initially on brief as Counsel for the Concourt Judges, become “uncomfortable” with the brief?
• Why did Adv Sikhakhane SC ultimately withdraw from the brief?
• Eintlik, what is the fuss about?

These are some of the questions that Adv Sikhakhane SC helps us navigate and find answers to.

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This is the Second Segment of Seven.

In the Seven Segments, Sikhakhane SC dives deeper into various key issues that he tackles in his book, Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate.

In this Second Segment we lay a foundation for what follows in the next 5 segments. In order to grasp fully the discussions in the next 5 segments, it is necessary to understand and appreciate the context from which they spring.

That foundation and context is provided here, where Sikhakhane SC discusses:

• Miseducation as a tool of psychological conquest of Africans by colonial forces that Africans must reverse in order to be truly free from the grip of inferiority and beat their path to self-determination
• How Miseducation manifests itself in the conduct of Black South Africans today
• The folly of Transformation of structures designed for the oppression of a people in the hope of turning them into vessels of progress and equality
• Why seeking to Transform white colonial structures, designed to achieve the opposite of what transformation aim to change them into, is a fool’s errand
• Why it is important for Black people to build and run their own structures from the ground up, instead of seeking to transform existing white colonial structures built to entrench coloniality

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This is the First Segment of Seven.

In the Seven Segments, Sikhakhane SC dives deeper into various key issues that he tackles in his book, Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate.

In this First Segment Sikhakhane SC covers the following issues:

• What informed the writing of his book, Odyssey of Liberation: A Memoir of a Rebel Advocate
• The difference between Justice and the Law
• The target reader of this book
• The meaning of a “Constitutional Democracy” and why South Africans need to reconsider its efficacy for South African conditions and rather adopt “Democratic Constitutionalism”: Are decisions taken in your name safer in the hands of the political representatives you elected, or in the hands of an unelected Judiciary?

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