Weaponising Gender in South Africa’s Chief Justice Appointment - Gender Equality as a Proxy in the War Against Corruption

Weaponising Gender in South Africa’s Chief Justice Appointment - Gender Equality as a Proxy in the War Against Corruption Albertyn, Cathi Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-08-11 eng 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Albertyn, Cathi Abusive Feminism South Africa South African Constitutional Court Südafrika Südafrika 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/gender-south-africa-chief-justice/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/440bc3c8b5c7b80e 250811 10.59704/440bc3c8b5c7b80e Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)