There is a big problem with all this lawfare.  I'm not even referring to how long it takes, with drawn-out appeal after appeal...

But the biggest problem is with enforcement.  In April 2016, the High Court ordered charges to be reinstated.  It is now June 2017, and nothing happened in between.  It's not even because an appeal is pending, this time around; the NPA applied for leave to appeal to the SCA only now.  What sanction has their inaction in the meantime resulted in? None at all.  Even if they lose their appeals all the way to the Constitutional Court, which body actually has the teeth to force them to comply?