Do Interviews Even Matter? What Lobola Can Teaches Us About Choosing Judges

What can we learn from the ritual of marriage ceremonies and the logic of building social legitimacy? This video discusses this connection in light of Zimbabwe's #CAB3 which dismantles the constitutional structure that protects the judiciary from perceptions of political capture. For a full exploration of appointment dynamics in respect of the former Chief Justice, see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c... For a comparison of South Africa's Constitutional Court to Zimbabwe's, see https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... For the statement following Malaba CJ's appointment, see    • Chief Justice Malaba speaking to journalists   For the statement following Gwaunza CJ's appointment see    • Hanzi the Judiciary is not captured na new...