Quote of the week
Universal adult suffrage on a common voters roll is one of the foundational values of our entire constitutional order. The achievement of the franchise has historically been important both for the acquisition of the rights of full and effective citizenship by all South Africans regardless of race, and for the accomplishment of an all-embracing nationhood. The universality of the franchise is important not only for nationhood and democracy. The vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood. Quite literally, it says that everybody counts. In a country of great disparities of wealth and power it declares that whoever we are, whether rich or poor, exalted or disgraced, we all belong to the same democratic South African nation; that our destinies are intertwined in a single interactive polity.
August and Another v Electoral Commission and Others (CCT8/99) [1999] ZACC 3
List of candidates shortlisted by JSC for judicial appointment
JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION
SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR JUDICIAL POSITIONS
On 21 July 2015, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) published notices in the media calling for nominations of interested persons to fill 17 vacancies in the various superior courts. The closing date for submission of nominations was set for 11 August 2015. On 26 August 2015, the JSC met and compiled a short list of candidates to be interviewed at its sitting to be held in Cape Town on 05-09 October 2015 as follows:
1. Eastern Cape Division of the High Court (Bhisho) (Deputy Judge President) (One vacancy)
Judge M Makaula
Judge S M Mbenenge
Judge D Van Zyl
2. Eastern Cape Division of the High Court (Mthatha) (Deputy Judge President) (One vacancy)
Judge Z M Nhlangulela
3. Eastern Cape Division of the High Court (Port Elizabeth) (One vacancy)
Adv R W N Brooks SC
Adv E Crouse
Adv M G Ndzondo
4. Free State Division of the High Court (Two vacancies)
Adv P U Fisher SC
Ms N M Mbhele
Mr J J Mhlambi
Ms S C Mia
Mr N W Phalatsi
Adv L Le Pohl SC
Adv C Reinders
5. Gauteng Division of the High Court (Six vacancies)
Judge A C Basson
Ms C J Collis
Adv N Davis SC
Adv R M Keightley
Ms N P Mali
Mr P L C Maseti
Mr M P N Mbongwe
Ms L T Modiba
Mr T P Mudau
Adv R Strydom SC
Mr M L Twala
Adv W H G Van der Linde SC
6. KwaZulu-Natal Division of the High Court (Deputy Judge President) (One vacancy)
Judge S Gyanda
Judge G N Kruger
Judge M I Madondo
Judge S K Ndlovu
Judge K Pillay
7. KwaZulu-Natal Division of the High Court (Two vacancies)
Adv P C Bezuidenhout SC
Prof K Govender
Ms S M Marks
Adv G R Thatcher SC
8. Labour Court (Two vacancies)
Adv C Prinsloo
Mr E Tlhotlhalemaje
9. Northern Cape Division of the High Court (One vacancy)
Adv S L Erasmus
Adv L G Lever SC
Ms M C Mamosebo
In total, the JSC has therefore shortlisted 40 candidates. The shortlisted candidates will be notified of the date, time and venue of the interviews in due course.
Law bodies and members of the public wishing to comment on the candidates should address their comments to the Secretariat of the Judicial Service Commission at Chiloane@concourt.org.za alternatively Dube@concourt.org.za. Comments must reach the Secretariat by no later than 21 September 2015.
Issued by the Judicial Service Commission
Enq: Adv D Ntsebeza SC 0824672490 and Mr C P Fourie 0828811737
03 September 2015
