http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/440bc3c8b5c7b80e https://verfassungsblog.de/gender-south-africa-chief-justice/ Weaponising Gender in South Africa’s Chief Justice Appointment - Gender Equality as a Proxy in the War Against Corruption Albertyn, Cathi eng 2025-08-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Abusive Feminism South Africa South African Constitutional Court Südafrika Südafrika Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Ros Dixon argues that “[p]lacing women in high office reflects commitments to fairness, diversity and equality of opportunity. But it also creates opportunities for anti-feminist, would-be authoritarians to use women’s descriptive representation to advance and legitimate their own sexist, authoritarian projects”. The South African Judicial Services Commission’s interviews for the country’s Chief Justice in 2022 provide a fascinating example of this phenomenon in the context of political struggles around corruption and accountability in South Africa.