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• Thuli Madonsela: It was expected that the public protector would remain a harmless chapter 9 institution without speaking truth to power. Madonsela changed that, and delivered the reports that probed Zuma’s Nkandla pile and the capture of the state-owned enterprises under his leadership. It set the tone for some of the most damaging court findings against Zuma and the executive. • Mogoeng Mogoeng: When Zuma appointed Mogoeng as leader of the judiciary, there were fears that the chief justice was too conservative and would be a lapdog of the president — as he was depicted in a Zapiro cartoon. Under Mogoeng’s leadership the judiciary has stayed fiercely independent, and made landmark judgments in terms of keeping the executive on its toes. It was Mogoeng who wrote and delivered the unanimous 2016 judgment in which the constitutional court found that Zuma had failed to “uphold, respect and protect” the constitution in the way he dealt with the public protector’s State of Captu...

Among a few other lessons Nelson Mandela left us, Humility, Honorable, Heroic, Inspiring, Iconic, Influential are a couple of words among a few others that could be utilized to portray the man we all know as Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela was detained for a long time by the South African politically-sanctioned racial segregation government Mandela stood up against the South African apartheid government that was committing egregious human rights abuses against black South Africans. Mandela was released from prison in 1990 and went on to lead the way for the abolition of apartheid in 1994. He was elected as South Africa’s first black president that same year. Nelson Mandela has departed on December 5th, 2013 having walked among us as a man for 95 years, this African hero will always be remembered in history. Nelson Mandela’s Life and Death: 7 Things You Can Learn From Nelson Mandela’s Life. Have Faith In Justice Nelso...