A prosecutor vanishes.

A magistrate throws out the case.

One of the most feared men in Mpumalanga walks free.

This week on This Is Politics, Justice Malala and Mondli Makhanya unpack the extraordinary courtroom drama involving Joe Ferrari Sibanyoni, the missing prosecutor, and the growing questions around South Africa’s justice system.

Was this incompetence? Institutional collapse? Or something even more troubling?

The conversation goes far beyond one courtroom and asks a deeper question: can ordinary South Africans still trust the administration of justice?