History was made this week apparently as the highest court in the land was for the first time constituted entirely of black Africans (HERE). Stories like this always shock me back from my (somewhat imagined) post-racial existence - colonialism, dislocation, apartheid, everything comes washing over me in ways that are uncomfortable for a white person in this part of the world. At the same time, I get immense reassurance from developments like this. It's a great achievement and Swaziland should be proud.
Still, a black African court means very little when compared with an all-Swazi Supreme Court (none of the judges that sat was a Swazi). This should signal a seismic shift in Swazi constitutionalism. According to s 157(1) of the 2005 Constitution, it is scheduled to happen by 8 February 2013.
