Hlophe grills aspirant Western Cape judges - While he challenges its recommendation that he be suspended, the judge president was allowed to take part in the JSC interviews with candidates in his division
present, despite caution that it could taint the process as he recently had been found guilty of gross misconduct.that he had breached the Constitution, and recommended that he be suspended by President Cyril Ramaphosa pending an impeachment process, Hlophe again took part in interviews with aspirant judges in the division, this time in bruising fashion.
Hlophe then asked how many criminal trials she had completed. She said none so far, although she was nearing completion of a human trafficking case, but had handled battles like bail reviews.She answered it was a work in progress where the desired endpoint was that everyone, regardless of race and gender, should eventually enjoy equal opportunity. De Wet agreed and Hlophe reminded her that, under apartheid, there were degrees of discrimination and that Africans endured the worst.
With a nod to the presence of newly appointed commissioner advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi – who has written extensively on dispossession and the failure of land restitution efforts – Hlophe said he was going to steer the interview towards land rights. “There are those who believe that, no, there is no need to amend section 25. Let me hear your views in that regard,” he said.
Ngcukaitobi teased that he would like to hear her hypothetical stance, to which Hlophe replied that he would not allocate land cases to her, before acknowledging that Maya had a point and withdrawing the question.
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