Anneke Meerkotter

Judicial independence is critical to protecting press freedom in Africa

• 23 February 2019
• Anneke Meerkotter

In this opinion piece, Anneke Meerkotter, Litigation Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre  (SALC), discusses a recent High Court of Lesotho (sitting as a Constitutional Court) judgment which declared the offence of criminal defamation unconstitutional. She takes the opportunity to also reflect more generally on the extent to which judiciaries have created the space for constitutional jurisprudence to be exercised in a manner that facilitates social transformation.