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Hlophe says ‘assassination plot’ is a bid to sully his name

National Lester Kiewit - 19 Sep 2020

Allegations that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe planned to assassinate his deputy, Patricia Goliath, are leading to further instability on the Cape bench

High court declares the City of Cape Town’s lockdown evictions illegal

Coronavirus Lester Kiewit - 25 Aug 2020

The South African Human Rights Commission and housing activists brought — and won — an application to halt lockdown demolitions of what the City of Cape Town said were unoccupied dwellings

Judicial Conduct Committee finds prima facie gross misconduct by Judge Mushtak Parker

National Franny Rabkin - 11 Jun 2020

The committee says if two complaints against him are found to be true, they are “extremely serious”

Goliath’s secret recording of Hlophe raises questions of ethics

National Franny Rabkin - 16 May 2020

In an extraordinary move for a judge, the deputy judge president says she secretly recorded a meeting that proves she was insulted by Judge President John Hlophe

Western Cape Judge Mushtak Parker faces second misconduct complaint

Article Franny Rabkin - 1 Apr 2020

The Cape Bar Council says his conduct is ‘unbecoming the holding of judicial office’

High court judicial row rumbles on

Article Franny Rabkin - 19 Mar 2020

The Judicial Conduct Committee’s decision in the Hlophe vs Goliath matter means those judges at loggerheads will have to continue to work in one court

Western Cape judges refuse to share a bench with one of their own

National Franny Rabkin - 16 Mar 2020

Ten judges say that, in the dispute between the Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and his deputy Patricia Goliath, their colleague has shown a serious lack of integrity

We fail children living with disabilities

Article Vanessa Japtha - 6 Mar 2020

Despite commendable work and persistent battles, not enough is being done for these learners

Strike-off case pulls in judge

Article Franny Rabkin - 14 Feb 2020

Judge Mushtak Parker is implicated in an application to strike off his former partners. He is also involved in the fight between the Western Cape high court’s judge president and his deputy

Warring judges stay on the Bench

Article Franny Rabkin - 31 Jan 2020

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

Salie-Hlophe accuses Goliath of lying and racism

Article Franny Rabkin - 25 Jan 2020

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

Hlophe complaint is an eerie echo

National Franny Rabkin - 24 Jan 2020

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

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

Article Franny Rabkin - 21 Jan 2020

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 Jacob Zuma

Police and migrants clash in downtown Cape Town

Article Lester Kiewit - 30 Oct 2019

The migrants are calling on the United Nations to help them be repatriated to other countries, including Canada and Australia

Legal battle over prime cape farmland

Article Lester Kiewit - 15 Oct 2019

Decade long battle over Philippi farmland comes to a head as campaigners say development would destroy the sensitive agricultural area

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