Lawyers for the man arrested in connection with the fire at Parliament in January say district surgeon Dr Zelda van Tonder, who diagnosed Zandile Christmas Mafe as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, should have been called to testify by the State. Lawyers for the man arrested in connection.
Judicial watchdog group Judges Matter human rights lawyer and researcher Mbekezeli Benjamin has welcomed the review by lobby group Advocates for Transformation (AFT) that led to Advocate Dali Mpofu's replacement by Kameshni Pillay SC and Siphokazi Poswa-Lerotholi SC as AFT's representatives at the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). Judges Matter is a civil society organisation that monitors the appointment of judges, their discipline for misconduct, and the governance system of the judiciary in South Africa.
The recent Judicial Service Commission interviews for the chief justice position have been widely slated as misogynistic – but this is nothing new for a judicial body generally hostile to women.
The Council of the Bar on Tuesday said that it had been inundated with objections to Advocate Dali Mpofu s conduct during the interviews for the Chief Justice position.
Freedom Under Law (FUL) has expressed its confidence that President Cyril Ramaphosa will make his own choice for Chief Justice from the four candidates that were recently interviewed by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). Ramaphosa must select a successor to Mogoeng Mogoeng whose term of office ended in October 2021.