Judges Matter has made a submission to the Moseneke Committee’s report on judicial establishment, addressing the urgent need for more judges and interim measures to tackle the crisis in South Africa’s courts, especially the Gauteng High Court.
What happens now to “drunk” Judge Nkola Motata? It has been 16 years since allegations emerged that on the morning of 6 January 2007 Gauteng High Court Judge Nkola Motata drove his car into a wall while drunk. Following his drunk-driving conviction in a magistrates court, a judicial misconduct complaint filed with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) […]
Can a sitting judge be a member of a board of directors? The role of judges on the boards of charities and not for profit organisations has certainly been questioned from time to time. In the most recent October hearings of the JSC, now Judge Unterhalter when asked about his affiliations with civil society organisations […]
As part of our work and to create greater transparency around the judiciary and the JSC interviews, we write profiles and interview synopses of each of the candidates who are interviewed by the JSC. To give you some insight into some of the judicial candidates who appear before the JSC we’ve put together a list […]
Watching the Judicial Service Commission interviews can give you great insight into the nature of a candidate as well as the judiciary and the JSC itself. As not everyone can attend the JSC interviews and watch them live, we record all the interviews and share the videos on our YouTube channel for you to watch. […]
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