Celebrating Women’s Month: Progress and challenges in South Africa’s judiciary
Celebrating the achievements of women in South Africa’s judiciary while acknowledging the ongoing challenges they face.
Celebrating the achievements of women in South Africa’s judiciary while acknowledging the ongoing challenges they face.
While judicial appointment bodies do consider race and gender in diversifying the judiciary – and there has been an improvement over the years – there is still a gap in our judicial system. The gap is in respect of judicial leadership positions. Here women are under-represented by far.
The role of judicial leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic will be critical. We don’t have a single judiciary, or at least not yet – and the different parts of the South African justice system are responding differently. Lead taken by Gauteng High Court The lead was taken on Monday (16 March 2020) by Dunstan Mlambo; […]