Ramaphosa suspends Hlophe - The president’s decision comes five months after the Judicial Service Commission recommended the step
pending a decision by the National Assembly on whether to impeach him on charges of serious misconduct, the presidency said on Wednesday. advised the president to take the step.
It attributed the delay in heeding the recommendation of the JSC to the president needing to “carefully consider all the permutations of the JSC recommendation, including obtaining guidance from an independent legal opinion”.
In court papers, he repeated the argument he made in the high court review application that the JSC risked violating the very principle of the independence of the judiciary it sought to protect by recommending his removal.
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