for policy making the judgment stated that these constitutional duties can coexist and will do so provided that the anticorruption unit has sufficient attributes to fulfil the functions required of it under the bill of rights it further stated that adequate independence did not require insulation from political accountability it said that in the modern polis that would be impossible and it would be averse to our uniquely south african constitutional structure honourable members i_letter quote the statement by the constitutional court what is required is not total insulation from political accountability but only insulation from a degree of management by political actors the heads of the directorate for priority