Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane withdrew from her nomination in the race for the next Chief Justice of South Africa, according to the office of the President.
The public protector says she pulled out of the race to fill the position of Chief Justice, because she wanted to focus on her remaining two years as public protector.
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is set to appeal, virtually as per Covid-19 lockdown guidelines issued by government since last year, a judgment made in June by the Pretoria High Court which ruled that while declaring a state of disaster was rational, the overwhelming number of accompanying regulations were irrationally conceived, thus declaring all Disaster Management Act regulations as unconstitutional and invalid.
Instead of hearing the matter in person on Wednesday, Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Appeal Christiaan van der Merwe informed the two parties the hearing would be held virtually. There’s more to this story