The organisation notes complaints against Mpofu following the interviews with candidates for chief justice and set out guidelines of fairness, but said he was not treated fairly within its own ranks
The president took his time to announce the country’s new chief justice. What took him so long, and did he make the best choice?
President Cyril Ramaphosa has rejected a recommendation from the JSC that he appoint Supreme Court of Appeal president Mandisa Maya as head of the judiciary
Angelo Agrizzi’s application for withdrawal of the R800 000 fraud charges against him will be argued in court in April
The president said he had expected the commission to limit itself to commenting on the suitability of all four shortlisted candidates, but that the decision remained his prerogative
Opposition parties say the need for private-sector involvement in state affairs is proof of a ‘failing dummy cabinet’
As the president spoke about state capture, opposition MPs murmured disparagingly in a manner previously reserved for his predecessor Jacob Zuma
‘We will engage in a rugged struggle to ensure that all those who are implicated in the State Capture report are brought to book’
The JSC exceeded its mandate to place the president in a corner in which exercising his wide powers to select the next chief justice have become fettered by popular concerns
The chairperson of the state capture commission and acting chief justice said he had no bias in favour of the president or any against his predecessor, but proceeded on the basis of evidence, without thought as to whether it could deny him the post of chief justice
The acting chief justice suggested, in his interview with the Judicial Service Commission for the post of chief justice, that the next round of interviews in April with candidates would be an opportunity to do so
The aspirant chief justice said it might give the country a fighting chance against corruption but Justice Minister Roland Lamola said there would be no point unless the state’s investigating capacity was strengthened at the same time
The head of the supreme court of appeal said if appointed she would import some appellate court customs to the constitutional court to speed up turnaround times
Judges Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Mandisa Maya, Dunstan Mlambo and Raymond Zondo are all strong candidates to become chief justice
The presidential bobbing and weaving over ANC campaign funding is about to come to an end
The judiciary is under attack from populists – again – and needs a leader who can balance tensions between rights in the Constitution brilliantly and bravely.
The brilliance of Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s mind and his transformative judgments can prove salutary at a time when the judiciary is under populist attack, his peers hope.
The minister’s open defiance has raised the stakes in a standoff that points to the looming power struggle President Cyril Ramaphosa faces
The senior state capture investigator and member of the Investigating Directorate died a fortnight after Zondo released the first part of his state capture report
In a public showdown with the president, the minister promptly distanced herself from his statement that said she apologised for her attacks on the judiciary
The state capture report reveals a governance crisis at state-owned entities. Experts weigh in on how this came to be and what to do about it.
The former president is asking the Pretoria high court to declare Zondo’s tenure as chairman of the commission of inquiry unlawful and to order Ramaphosa to appoint a new chair
The president said slurs against the judiciary, sabotage against institutions and the findings of the Zondo commission showed the need to protect democracy
The minister in the presidency said there was a need for the government to do more to protect the judiciary
Themba Maseko, the former chief government spokesman said it would be a very long wait for legislative reform, as urged by the Zondo report, to see the light of day if state capture culprits still in the state did not face the music
The attack by Minister Lindiwe Sisulu on judges as enslaved to a colonial mentally placed the acting head of the judiciary in an impossible position, fraught with politics, legal scholars say
Lindiwe Sisulu’s broadside isn’t the only attack on SA’s supreme law.
ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe says the minister of tourism and a member of the party’s national executive committee was expressing her personal views when she attacked the integrity of the judiciary and the Constitution.
The acting chief justice accused the minister of breaking her oath to respect the Constitution by questioning the rule of law and branding African judges as slaves of oppressive ideology
Zondo commission’s first report released earlier this month recommends prosecution for about 20 individuals implicated in graft at state-owned entities
The whistleblower fears that Zondo’s recommendation that the firm’s contracts with public entities be scrutinised will be stonewalled – and implicates Telkom.
The Zondo report delves into South Africa’s procurement web, as it tries to figure out why state-owned entities were able to be captured