Casac has won a High Court battle which compels the JSC to run fresh interviews for the country’s judges in order to allegedly ’smuggle in’ certain individuals to the judiciary.
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution has won a High Court battle which compels the Judicial Service Commission to run fresh interviews for the country’s judges in order to allegedly “smuggle in” certain individuals to the judiciary.
"You sit there, with the beautiful education you got ... in three years’ time , you come and pass ... all these people, who have gone through poverty to be where they are. You pass them and you go to the highest court. We are going to be heavily criticised to choose a white man against a black African female who has gone through the ranks, who has interviewed so well. But she doesn’t have what you have – for obvious reasons...
But Commissioner Malema didn't buy that explanation. “... You are nothing but a political activist, and you don’t deserve any high office. You are factional and you are part of the Gordhan faction,” he said. The third commissioner said the whole notion that there was no proper deliberation on the shortlisted candidates was an insult to their intelligence.
“Judge Unterhalter doesn’t even have five years’ experience and Advocate Dodson isn’t even a judge, he is still a senior counsel but we were expected to shortlist them by hook or by crook.”
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