Two judges each bound for Eastern Cape and Limpopo High Courts
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) wrapped up a week of interviews on Friday after appointing four judges to the Eastern Cape and Limpopo divisions of the High Court.On Friday it announced that it had recommended Bantubonke Tokota SC and attorney Thembekile Malusi to the Eastern Cape court, and Francis Kganyago and Matsaro Semenya to the Limpopo division.Tokota is famous for being one of the panel of the Farlam commission of inquiry, which investigated the Marikana massacre of 2012. Forty-four people were killed on Lonmin’s Marikana mine, 34 of them gunned down by police on a single day.Though the report of the commission has been condemned as a whitewash in some quarters, particularly by the EFF, Tokota deftly handled questions on this score from EFF leader Julius Malema, also a commissioner on the JSC.Asked about whether he believed in "muti" and whether muti could cause people to act in a certain way, Tokota said he did not. But he said, like church, if people did believe in i...
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