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The judicial system has drawn much attention lately to South Africa's political and public life. It has, in the last 13 years at least, provided hope in relation to playing an oversight role on the legislature and the executive. From the day the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to probe atrocities of the past apartheid rule (Klaaren, 2007), jurists have been hard at work as the custodians of the rule of law. Some critics have also begun to question the current rate and frequency of the role and intervention of the judiciary in disputes in society, especially those who are political in nature. Among those dedicated jurists at the apex of the judicial system was the now retired Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke.