Mogoeng Mogoeng quizzes judges on land, inequality and ‘capture of the judiciary’
Chief justice and Judicial Services Commission panel interviewing judges to fill two positions on Constitutional Court bench
Branding judges as “well or highly respected” and singing their praises when they did nothing to deserve it could be a form of “capture” of the judiciary, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said on Wednesday. Mogoeng chaired the Judicial Service Commission on Wednesday during interviews to fill two vacancies on the Constitutional Court bench. The top court has 11 permanent members on the bench, but the positions left vacant by the promotion of deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo in March 2017, and the retirement of justice Bess Nkabinde in 2018, have not yet been filled. High court judges Annali Basson, Patricia Goliath, Jody Kollapen and Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane, and Supreme Court of Appeal judges Stevan Majiedt and Zukisa Tshiqi were interviewed for the positions, which would be President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first appointments to the bench. The commissioners posed questions to the candidates on the rampant inequality in SA, transformation of the judiciary, the question of land — in which...
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