Labour Appeal Court judge looks set to become deputy judge president
LABOUR Appeal Court Judge Lazarus Pule Tlaletsi is the only short-listed candidate for the position of deputy judge president of the Labour Court and the Labour Appeal Court.The post is one of 10 judicial vacancies in South Africa that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is looking to fill. Twenty-one candidates have been short-listed for the posts, 12 of them women. The strong showing of women candidates in this round of interviews follows on the previous round in April when the JSC also shortlisted mainly women as it tried to address concerns about gender imbalance in the judiciary.The interviews will be done during the sitting of the JSC to be held in Cape Town in November. The interviews come amid tensions over transformation in the judiciary, with commissioner Izak Smuts resigning after releasing a discussion document calling for an "honest debate" about the JSC’s approach to appointing white men to the bench. In that document, Mr Smuts said if the JSC would appoint white men...
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