JUDICIAL SLOT
JSC yet to fill vacant top court position
The JSC struggles to fill vacancies as women continue to be underrepresented in SA’s highest court
The Judicial Service Commission is still struggling to fill a vacancy on the Constitutional Court bench, for which it has re-opened nominations. This comes at a time when there are only three women justices sitting in the highest court in the land. The Constitutional Court has been male dominated since its establishment, and there were no female candidates in the last round of JSC interviews. In recent years, the JSC has often struggled to scrape together a short list for the Constitutional Court. The retirements of Justice Johann van der Westhuizen in January 2016 and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke in May created two vacancies.
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