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
14 Women shortlisted by JSC for judcial positions
SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR JUDICIAL POSITIONS
On 21 November 2012, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) published advertisements in the media calling for nominations of interested persons to fill 11 vacancies in the various superior courts. On 23 February 2013, the JSC met and compiled a short list of candidates to be interviewed at its sitting to be held in Cape Town on 08-12 April 2013 as follows:
- Supreme Court of Appeal (Two vacancies)
Judge C M Plasket
Judge H K Saldulker
Judge N P Willis
- Eastern Cape High Court (Bhisho)(one vacancy)
Ms X B Bacela
Adv C T S Cossie
Adv E Crouse
Mr P P Majeke
Ms B Ndzondo
- Competition Appeal Court (Judge President) (One vacancy)
Judge President D M Davis
- Competition Appeal Court (One vacancy))
The JSC decided to defer this vacancy to its October 2013 Sitting.
- Electoral Court (One vacancy)
Ms S Chesiwe
Adv M J Maluleke
- North and South Gauteng High Court (Deputy Judge President) (One vacancy)
Judge A P Ledwaba
Judge L M Molopa-Sethosa
Judge C Pretorius
- North and South Gauteng High Court (Four vacancies)
Adv A J Bam SC
Ms W Hughes
Ms N V Khumalo
Mr B A Mashile
Ms D S Molefe
Ms S S Mphahlele
Mr V R S N Nkosi
Ms L Windell
Adv G C Wright SC
In total, the JSC has shortlisted 23 candidates of which 14 are women. The shortlisted candidates will be notified of the date, time and venue of the interviews in due course.
Issued by the Judicial Service Commission
Enq: Adv D Ntsebeza SC 0824672490 and Mr C P Fourie 0828811737
26 February 2013
