glenister who won this case in the constitutional court doesn’t think so but of course what we think doesn’t really matter it’s not the da or hugh glenister who has to be convinced it’s the judges of the constitutional court who must be satisfied we have until seventeen september to pass this bill which will address parliament’s failure to secure an adequate degree of independence for the hawks in the existing legislation we began processing this bill in march and hours were spent poring over legislation by members of civil society academia and indeed the official opposition our stating that sufficient independence was unattainable within the saps hierarchy