The tale of two judges. Stuart Wilson, born in England, who co-founded the SERI NGO and has a deep institutional and judicial relationship with both the SERI and the Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town, ordered the release of an Ethiopian asylum seeker (following the concourt judgment on Scalabrini case). Then there’s Judge Mandlenkosi Motha, who refused to release 21 detained asylum applicants and raised the issue of ordinary South Africans not being heard while NGOs have access to the courts. And this brings me back to something I’ve said before. I’m against naturalised citizens occupying certain positions of authority in this country, especially the judiciary. That’s my position and these two judgments have only made me want to have that conversation even more.