Age is not just a number. This was the impression given by acting chief justice Raymond Zondo when he interviewed a Gauteng judge-hopeful, advocate Johan Holland-Müter SC, on Tuesday.
Advocate Johan Holland-Müter SC on Tuesday told the Judicial Service Commission that at 65, he doesn't feel he is too old to apply for a judge position.Age is not just a number. This was the impression given by acting chief justice Raymond Zondo when he interviewed a Gauteng judge-hopeful, advocate Johan Holland-Müter SC, on Tuesday.
Holland-Müter, however, said he believed his health was good, adding that he had about seven or eight more years to give to his career before considering retirement. Holland-Müter replied he was not after the benefits, saying “I feel in my soul I still have a lot to give back to my country”. Asked about his legal role in the 1980s at the height of apartheid, Holland-Müter said back then “he became disgusted with the system”, saying he discharged many of the cases that came before him as a magistrate. These were mediocre cases, which in some instances involved black men arrested during hostel raids after being found with women in their rooms.
While his responses to this in the April interview had not impressed the judges, during his latest interview Moosa told the commission he had done a lot of reflection and had become sensitised and conscientised to the seriousness of delayed judgments.
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