EDITORIAL: The turbulence and controversy that surrounds members of the judiciary and the alleged interference in how our courts operate is a great cause for concern.
Head office operations are currently spread between Johannesburg and Durban and stakeholders, and some government authorities want it to stay that way.
As a self-identified party hack, ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe got stuck on the constitutionally permitted motion of no confidence in a president under Section 102 of the Constitution, maintaining the ANC would never vote in favour of that because it would spark “a massive split” and “collapse” in the ANC.
And so one of the governing ANC’s top officials effectively gave the Constitution it also allows for a president’s impeachment under Section 89 the Trudeau salute, named for the former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s penchant to flip off media, anti-French protesters and others he disliked.
In his testimony before Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, Mantashe relied on repeatedly asserting that South Africa’s party political system required loyalty and protection from MPs who must toe the party line, and then proceeded to split some political hairs and make a couple of misleading statements.
EFF to ask SAPS, public protector to probe Gordhan over Mogoengâs claims
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Johannesburg: The EFF says it will open a corruption case against Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan after he allegedly questioned Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng on his friend s performance for a Constitutional Court position.
Mogoeng revealed during the Judicial Service Commission s (JSC) interview session on Tuesday that Gordhan had approached him for a meeting a few years ago to discuss matters he could not recall .
The chief justice said, in passing, Gordhan asked him how his friend, KwaZulu-Natal High Court judge Dhaya Pillay, had done in the interview for a position at the Constitutional Court.