WHILE most of the candidates interviewed for appointment to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court were magistrates, the majority of them had difficult interviews and it was the attorneys and advocates who won over the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) in Cape Town on Wednesday.The commission announced that of the nine candidates interviewed, attorneys Mahendra Chetty and Thoba Poyo-Dlwati, Peter Olsen SC and one magistrate, Nkosinathi Chili, would be recommended to President Jacob Zuma for appointment.The commission had initially advertised three vacant positions in the KwaZulu-Natal division, but following its recommendation of Durban-based high court judge Kevin Swain to the Supreme Court of Appeal on Tuesday it decided to fill that vacancy as well.Mr Chetty, regional director of the Legal Resources Centre, Durban office, had a warm interview overall, and deftly navigated questions by Deputy Home Affairs Minister Fatima Chohan about her "slight discomfort" with would-be judges that had an ...
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