In the main the Constitution Seventeenth Amendment Bill reaffirms the Constitutional Court as the apex court in the Republic and the Chief Justice as the head of the entire judiciary, which are the fundamental ingredients of a unified judiciary suited to our Constitution. On the other hand, the Superior Courts signal the demise of the apartheid-drawn demarcation of the areas of jurisdiction of the old order. High Courts were never rationalised when these courts were renamed in 2008 following an Act passed by this Parliament. It is very difficult to think that up till two or three years ago we still had a High Court of Venda, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, and so on. The law takes its time to turn.