The Western Cape high court judge faces two complaints of impeachable misconduct
The president’s decision to remove him from the bench was flawed, Motata said, because the National Assembly was misled when it took a vote that triggered this step
There was 15 years of legal to and fro before the first judge in post-apartheid South Africa was impeached
Nkola Motata’s case is the closest democratic South Africa has come to impeaching a judge
Though cleared of gross misconduct, he retired high court judge must pay a fine of over a million rand
Motata’s counsel, Themba Skosana said that while the words used by Motata could be considered “vulgar”, they were not racist.
A decade after the judge’s drunk driving incident, he may face impeachment if found guilty of professional misconduct
Motata is one of seven judges who face impeachment inquiries but whose cases have languished unresolved for years
Using a member of the NPA as an evidence leader compromises the principles of separation of powers and judicial independence.
High Court judge Nkola Motata has lost a legal bid on Friday to stop a misconduct inquiry against him after his conviction of drunken driving.
When celebrities and politicians find themselves on the wrong side of the law their excuses are often as colourful as their personalities.
Judge Nkola Motata has launched a bid to stop a judicial conduct tribunal from investigating him in connection with his drunk-driving conviction.
Judge Nkola Motata — a convicted drunk driver — was involved in another accident in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, early on Saturday morning.
The justice department would comment later on Tuesday on a report that Judge Nkola Motata has been paid almost R5-million while on special leave.
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will discuss the fate of Judge Nkola Motata, convicted of drunken driving, at its next sitting in April.
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/ 30 November 2010
Judge Nkola Motata has lost his appeal against a drunk-driving conviction in the High Court in Johannesburg, a media report said on Tuesday.
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/ 20 November 2009
The grainy surveillance footage picks out Thabo Mbeki at the bar. The former South African president appears pensive.
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/ 29 October 2009
Nkola Motata’s application for leave to appeal a drunk-driving sentence and conviction was dismissed by the Jo’burg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
Judge Nkola Motata has admitted to drinking on the night of his car accident, in a four-page response to an AfriForum complaint to the JSC.
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/ 29 September 2009
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata on Tuesday filed for leave to appeal his drunken driving conviction and sentence in the Johannesburg Magistrate
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/ 9 September 2009
The protracted drunken-driving trial of Judge Nkola Motata is not over yet as his defence indicated on Wednesday he will apply for leave to appeal.
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/ 9 September 2009
Judge Nkola Motata will on Wednesday afternoon be handed his sentence for drunken driving in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
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/ 5 September 2009
Timing is the key for Judge Nkola Motata if he is to have any hope of keeping his job after being found guilty of drunken driving this week.
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/ 2 September 2009
Judge Nkola Motata must be removed from the bench, AfriForum said on Wednesday after a Jo’burg magistrate found him guilty of drinking and driving.
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/ 2 September 2009
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata was found guilty of drunken driving by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
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/ 2 September 2009
Judgement is expected in the drunk-driving case of High Court Judge Nkola Motata in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
A state witness was ”whitewashing” judge Nkola Motata of wrongdoing, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court heard on Thursday.
With Judge Nkola Motata not having testified, what has been put to witnesses on his behalf should not be taken into account, the state says.
Nkola Motata has been acquitted on a charge of ”driving with an excessive amount of alcohol in his blood”, but still faces a drunken-driving charge.
There is too much evidence against Judge Nkola Motata in his drunken driving trial for the court to discharge the case, a prosecutor said on Monday.
The drunk driving case against high court Judge Nkola Motata is expected to start again in Johannesburg on Monday.