c ommission also paid the expenses of its c hairperson to attend the ANC's c entenary c elebrations. The hijac king of the Sec tion 185 Commission by the ANC has resulted in the c ommission being of no use to minorities. In fac t, it is now even being used as an instrument for opposing minority demands. When AfriForum rec ently started a c ampaign to protec t Afrikaans as a medium of instruc tion in sc hools, the c ommission issued a statement c ritic ising AfriForum's c ampaign. Ironic ally, the c ommission should have been the one institution that AfriForum should have been able to approac h for support in this regard.  The Human Rights Commission: AfriForum has over the years submitted numerous c omplaints to the c ommission whic h have been blatantly ignored. Onc e again c adre deployment was used to render the c ommission c ompletely ineffec tual. The appointment of Mr Lawrenc e Mushwana as the c hairperson is an example in this regard. In a c ourt ruling it was established that during Mushwana's stint as the Public Protec tor, his investigation into the so-c alled Oilgate sc andal had been done so superfic ially that it c ould not even be c alled an investigation.  The Pan South African Language Board (Pansalb): Pansalb was c reated in terms . of the Constitution with the aim of protec ting and promoting language rights in South Afric a. AfriForum submitted several c omplaints to Pansalb through the years and favourable rulings were obtained against various institutions that violated language rights. However, the ANC has ensured that Pansalb does not have any power to enforc e the rulings c onc erned. This means that rulings in favour of AfriForum have been ignored by state departments. In addition, insuffic ient funding and unsuitable appointments have paralysed the board even further. Even more telling of the degree of state interferenc e in matters relating to Pansalb is the fac t that the Minister of Arts and Culture rec ently blatantly c ontravened the Constitution by interfering-in-Pansalb-board--appointments:— -  The judicial system: To the great frustration of the ANC the judic ial system is one of the very few institutions not yet under the c omplete c ontrol of the ANC. One c an expec t the ANC to launc h intensified attempts to c hange this state of affairs. Danger signs have already been detec ted in the politic ally driven ac tions of most members of the Judic ial Servic es Commission during the appointment of Chief Justic e Mogoeng Mogoeng. In KwaZulu-Natal the ANC rec ently even went as far as stating that the transformation of the benc h is not so muc h c onc erned with the appointment of blac k judges as with the appointment of c andidates who are sympathetic to the ANC. The high c ost of litigation is also a deterrent to c hallenging the present state of affairs, espec ially as the 'c heaper' option of laying c harges with institutions provided for in sec tion 9 of the Constitution, has in effec t bec ome a futile exerc ise. 3