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Western Cape Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath.
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Report to JCC calls for tribunal to mull conflicting versions of judges’ damaging clash

The tensions in the Western Cape division are likely to trigger another inquiry into Goliath’s and Salie-Hlophe’s dispute, with potentially dire consequences

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
The JSC in 2021 affirmed a finding by the Judicial Conduct Tribunal that Hlophe had committed gross misconduct by raising a pending ruling relating to former president and now MK party leader Jacob Zuma’s arms deal corruption case with two constitutional court justices. File photo
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Hlophe: Goliath’s ‘false allegations’ amount to gross misconduct

The Western Cape Judge President has made a counter-complaint against his deputy and responded to her allegation

  • Franny Rabkin
6 min read
Despite an altercation and serious allegations, judges John Hlophe (above), Gayaat Salie-Hlophe and Patricia Goliath have not requested special leave. (David Harrison/M&G)
GAYAAT SALIE HLOPHE

Warring judges stay on the Bench

Removing them, even temporarily, is not easy. And for good reason, writes Franny Rabkin

  • Franny Rabkin
7 min read
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and his wife, Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe, on their wedding day in 2015. (Esa Alexander/Gallo Images/Sunday Times)
CAPE FLATS

Salie-Hlophe accuses Goliath of lying and racism

In response to Goliath’s gross misconduct complaint, Salie-Hlophe says Goliath has ‘an unhealthy obsession with my marriage’

  • Franny Rabkin
6 min read
Gloves off: Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and his wife, Judge Gayaat Salie-Hlophe, on their wedding day in 2015. Judge Patricia Goliath has levelled several serious allegations against the pair. (Esa Alexander/Gallo Images/Sunday Times)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Hlophe complaint is an eerie echo

But the new complaint against the Western Cape judge president is also unprecedented

  • Franny Rabkin
9 min read
The president’s decision comes five months after the Judicial Service Commission recommended the step
BARNABAS XULU

‘Judge President Hlophe tried to influence allocation of judges to nuclear case’

Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath accuses Hlophe of attempting to influence her to allocate the case to judges he perceived as ‘favourably disposed’ to former president…

  • Franny Rabkin
4 min read