Judge questioned over lunch with Zuma and friendship with Gordhan during JSC interviews
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Johannesburg - A lunch at former president Jacob Zuma s Nkandla homestead and accusations over a top six clique at the Supreme Court of Appeal dominated day two of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) attempts to fill vacant posts at the Constitutional Court.
The JSC will have to shortlist five candidates and submit the names to President Cyril Ramaphosa to make the final appointments.
On Tuesday, KwaZulu-Natal High Court Judge Dhayanithie Pillay faced a tough time during her interview over her key judgments.
Pillay, who is currently in an acting position at the Constitutional Court, had previously issued a judgment in 2019, in the defamation case between former president Jacob Zuma and former minister Derek Hanekom. Zuma lost the case.
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Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is clearing the air after Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng that he had approached him to ask how “his close friend” judge Dhaya Pillay had fared after she had completing an interview for a vacancy on the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2016. Pillay failed to make the cut, in her bid for the post.
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KwaZulu-Natal High Court Judge Dhayanithie Pillay had a pretty tough time during her interview with the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) on Tuesday, 13 April 2021, particularly from leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema.
Pillay, who has acted in the Constitutional Court, was questioned on her friendship with Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and his former Tourism counterpart, Derek Hanekom.
“I saw Hanekom in my courtroom. I am not friends with him. Mr Gordhan I have known for a long time. We are both activists from Durban and it’s hard not to know him,” she said.
I would never seek to influence Chief Justice - Gordhan on meeting with Mogoeng
14 April 2021 5:28 PM
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Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has written to the JSC denying any suggestion that he tried to influence Chief Justice Mogoeng in the past.
In a letter addressed to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), Gordhan has denied ever influencing Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhanâs letter to the Judicial Service Commission:
âI want to state emphatically that I would never, and nor did I in any way, seek to influence the Chief Justice, whose independence I have always respected.â pic.twitter.com/AElwnBezpj Karyn Maughan (@karynmaughan) April 14, 2021
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