Chief justice interviews: Mlambo laments toxic politicking around judiciary: The Gauteng judge president’s words turned prophetic as he came under sustained political attack in his interview for the post of chief justice
and said the judiciary operated in a toxic environment spawned by political polarisation.
Still more troubling, he said, was that corruption was taking root in court operations, “not by judicial officers”, but in terms of the usage and circulation of fraudulent court orders. “Yet in another breath in a case involving the public protector — of course, when the government has changed; in other words when the subject of the complaint has changed from one president to the other, or one administration to the other — you find quite the opposite.
“To start with, there was no foundation for that finding by the public protector, but worse still, the conceptual flaw was that Ramaphosa was not a member of parliament, therefore the joint committee had no jurisdiction over him. So that remedial action had no effect whatsoever.”
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