The quality of the JSC interviews for Chief Justice appears to be sinking to new lows every day. But Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo kept his cool despite what seemed to be a concerted campaign to derail his candidacy.
‘Thugs on the bench are being exposed now and waffling! It’ll be a travesty to recommend a thug for appointment as Chief Justice.”
Of course, the EFF’s ideological opportunism should surprise nobody by now. But it was still startling to see the ease with which Mpofu transformed fromon Wednesday, to a feminist justice crusader on Thursday. These allegations are nameless, faceless and numberless. They are, at that particular moment, smack-bang in the middle of interview proceedings, impossible to either corroborate or refute. There is not an affidavit, or an email, or a WhatsApp, or a single scrap of corroborating evidence produced to prove they exist.
Nobody knows. Least of all the JSC’s acting chair, Xola Petse, who allowed the commission to spiral ever further into chaos while Mlambo repeated his version steadfastly: “It’s an insidious, poisonous rumour with no truth in it.” If Petse could have accompanied this pronouncement with the use of one of those memory-sizzling devices whipped out by thecrew to erase human recall of extraterrestrial encounters, this ruling might have meant something. As it was, the allegations will simply hang in the ether — though, and doubtless other media outlets, will try to dig up the truth — and inevitably will become the primary association with Mlambo’s interview.
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