A divide-and-rule strategy has emerged from the response of Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe to the complaint laid against him.
African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe has launched an extraordinary attack on the country’s top judges.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has given Cape Judge President John Hlophe until Monday to respond to a Constitutional Court complaint.
Jacob Zuma’s attorneys have warned the Constitutional Court over its complaint against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
A united Constitutional Court deals Cape Judge President John Hlophe a devastating blow with a bombshell complaint to the Judicial Service Commission.
More revelations surfaced this week about Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s alleged attempt to influence Constitutional Court judges.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe allegedly told a Constitutional Court judge that he was ”our last hope”, Business Day reported on Thursday.
Johannesburg businessman Hugh Glenister will file papers in the Constitutional Court on Wednesday in a bid to prevent the disbanding of the Scorpions.
An extraordinary meeting of Constitutional Court judges over Cape Judge President John Hlophe will continue on Tuesday, it has been reported.
The Constitional Court is to meet on Monday to discuss how it can back up its ”undue influence” claims against Cape Judge President John Hlophe,
The Black Lawyers Association wants action against the judges of the country’s highest court, the Sunday Times reports.
Black legal organisations closed ranks around Hlophe this week, adding their voices to a chorus of criticism about the court’s conduct.
A Johannesburg Bar member protests against the attack on Judge John Hlophe on insubstantial evidence.
DA leader Helen Zille on Friday strongly criticised Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe, saying he ”behaves like an ANC deployee”.
The lawyer representing Cape Judge President John Hlophe on Thursday denied reports that Hlophe is to lodge a counter-complaint with the Judicial Service Commission.
Attorneys for Cape Judge President John Hlophe will lodge a complaint with the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) against Constitutional Court judges, it was reported on Wednesday.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe allegedly told two Constitutional Court judges to rule in favour of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma if they wished to secure their futures, a newspaper said on Sunday.
The Judicial Services Commission (JSC) will only meet in a month’s time to decide whether there is a prima facie case against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
Advocates for Transformation this week reacted to the Hlophe uproar by rejecting calls for his suspension.
There’s an awful lot of smoke surrounding Cape Judge President John Hlophe. Where’s the fire?
South Africa’s highest court on Wednesday recognised the right of a 66-year-old woman to become chief of her tribe, a position held only by men in the past.
The Judicial Services Commission (JSC) will meet on Friday to discuss the latest allegations against Cape Judge President John Hlophe, a JSC spokesperson said on Wednesday.
A tearful victim of the Fidentia collapse on Monday pleaded with a Cape High Court judge for assistance for her crippled son — and received some, thanks to a generous lawyer. The emotional outburst came during what was expected to be a routine postponement of the bid for final sequestration of former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown.
A Somali community in Johannesburg on Thursday accused police of firing live ammunition at its members as more xenophobic attacks were reported in Gauteng and former Cabinet minister Kader Asmal questioned claims of ‘third force’ involvement in the attacks.
Having a judge head the politically loaded Erasmus commission undermined the principle of separation of powers, lawyers for the City of Cape Town and the Democratic Alliance argued on Thursday. The city and the party have asked the court to quash the commission to probe the legality of the city’s spying on renegade councillor Badih Chaaban.
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Lawyers for African National Congress president Jacob Zuma will meet prosecutors on Thursday to decide whether his corruption case should begin on August 4, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said. ”It is only after the meeting today that we’ll know if the date we have proposed is confirmed,” NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali said.
The most striking image of Spain’s drought, that has forced Barcelona to ship in water, has been that of the underwater church which emerged from a drying dam. For most of the past four decades, all that has been visible of the village of Sant Roma has been the belltower of its stone church, peeping above the water beside forested hills from a valley flooded in the 1960s to provide water for the Catalonia region.
Our Constitution includes a range of socio-economic rights. The challenge to the judiciary was to achieve a balance between enforcement of these rights and deferring to the policy choices of a democratically elected government. The judiciary has precious little precedent to assist it in protecting entrenched rights without so burdening the state with judicially inserted requirements that the latter cannot properly perform its functions.
The Constitutional Court has reserved judgement on a ban prohibiting journalists from reporting on divorce cases, a media report said on Friday. Earlier this year, the Cape High Court ruled that section 12 of the Divorce Act was unconstitutional after media group Johncom brought an application challenging it.
If there was ever a period that so ably demonstrated the febrile nature of politics it has been the past week or two. As Jacob Zuma strode into Downing Street after having met with the British prime minister, looking surprisingly at ease in the media glare, Thabo Mbeki was quietly meeting King Mswati III which, with all due respect to the Swazi monarch, pretty much sums up the state of play: Zuma on the ascendant, Mbeki on the slide.
The existence of the Scorpions is ”as valid today as it was at conception”, says the Khampepe report released on Monday. ”Despite indications that crime levels are dropping, it is my considered view that organised crime still presents a threat that needs to be addressed through an effective comprehensive strategy,” states the report.
Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille on Monday vowed to take her fight against the Erasmus commission to the Constitutional Court. The commission was set up by Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool in December 2007 to investigate the City of Cape Town’s probe into controversial councillor Badih Chaaban.