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They are taking place in the context of former minister Sydney Mufamadi’s testimony to the Zondo Commission that during the Zuma era, the State Security Agency set aside millions to buy off judges hearing matters involving former president Jacob Zuma.
And they are taking place in the context of an imbroglio revolving around Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s public criticism of South Africa’s relationship with Israel: comments for which he has been ordered to apologise by the Judicial Conduct Committee and thus far refuses to comply.
Little wonder, then, that there appeared to be tension in the air at the interviews to fill two vacancies on the Constitutional Court this week, with questions heavy with subtext.
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Forcing all those who were alleged to have committed serious crimes or who were charged will cause the ANC to die, a branch member and protest organiser said.
At least one ANC province had met the deadline for handing up a list of those charged with crimes, while another said it was finalising its list.
Party deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte is set to act in Secretary-General Ace Magashule s place should he heed party orders and step down by the end of the month.
The ANC will die if all members alleged to have committed serious crimes – including the party’s Secretary-General Ace Magashule – are forced to step aside, a protest organiser said on Friday.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deputy president, Floyd Shivambu claims certain judges belong in the pockets of politicians. Shivambu was speaking outside the Hillbrow Police station after laying a criminal charge of corruption against Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan.
The charge was laid following the revelation by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at the Judicial Service Commission interviews – claiming that Gordhan had called his office in an attempt to inquire how Judge Dhaya Pillay performed at the previous commission interviews.
The party will also take the matter to Public Protector for allegedly breaching the Executive Ethics Act.
Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan is alleged to have tried to influence Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in appointing his friend Judge Dhaya Pillay to the Constitutional Court.
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