The absence of a code of conduct for commissioners serving on the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) means that the body cannot act on any misconduct during the proceedings.
“Because it does not have a code of conduct for its own commissioners, it can also not always say you cannot ask this kind of question or that question without prior warning. Of course, a lot of those things are common sense and decency,” Watt-Pringle said.
He pointed out that the GCB would act by approaching President Cyril Ramphosa with an alternative recommendation of who to appoint as replacement at the JSC if it were to act. BLA president Bayethe Maswazi said the implicated commissioners had “forgotten that they ought to be a reflection of the best that South Africa and South Africans can be”.
"The discipline of the members of the JSC ought not to be left to other bodies and the formulation of the guidelines for the proceedings of the JSC including parameters within which certain questions may be posed to candidates, with due respect and deference to the independence of the individual commissioners,” Maswazi said.
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