Strong and competent women should be appointed to positions of authority in SA courts rather than 'paying lip service' to the issue of gender transformation.
“It is very important not to pay lip service to the issue of gender but to make appointments of strong competent women. You don’t appoint women because they are women and for the sake of being women, but you appoint women who are competent, who are skilled in a particular area of law and are committed to the objectives of the constitution.”
She told justice minister Ronald Lamola she was more “tempered” and a “calmer individual” since her interview in October. after the Council for the Advancement of the SA constitution challenged its lawfulness and constitutionality. Chief Justice Raymond Zondo outlined some of the supplementary criteria each candidate needed to meet to be considered for the position.2. Is the proposed appointee a person with the necessary energy and motivation? capacity to give expression to the values of the constitution experienced with regard to values and needs of the community6. Symbolism.
“The default position is that marriage is a marriage in community of property and not one out of community of property. Customary law must also be consistent with the constitution, to the extent that when customary law is not, the courts would have to intervene to make it consistent.”
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