Gillian Schutte’s How Marianne Thamm’s Campaign Tries to Derail Sikhakhane’s Argument exposes how Daily Maverick’s Marianne Thamm distorted Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC’s closing argument at the Mbenenge Tribunal. Thamm’s October 22 article mocked his constitutional reasoning as chauvinism, reducing a nuanced legal defence to a culture-war caricature. Schutte argues that this reflects a deeper liberal bias — a colonial feminist reflex that refuses to recognise African jurisprudence on its own terms while turning serious legal debate into ideological spectacle.
