Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says the judiciary will never be captured and contends that the executive should not play a role in the appointment of judges and other court officials nor interfere with the running of the courts.
"I think it would take a very weak and corrupt judge or magistrate to be captured," he said.
Judges receive full salaries and increases even after they retire up until their deaths. He said the state"went out of its way" to ensure that judges were very well paid. "So what possible reasons would any principled person be so weakened by a desire for more to the point of compromising the principles that are so fundamental to the sustenance of SA as a constitutional democracy? So there's a very, very slim possibility of that happening.
"The judiciary as a collective has not been captured but I cannot vouch for every individual. But I can confidently say the overwhelming majority of the judges are incapable of being captured," he said.
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