Quote of the week
Early in 2016, a racist outburst by a white woman in KwaZulu-Natal, Penny Sparrow, ridiculing Black beachgoers as ‘monkeys’, and announcing that thenceforth she would ‘address the [B]lacks of South Africa as monkeys’, published in her online profile, was quickly disseminated countrywide. It convulsed South Africa in shame and acrid anger. The [Constitutional] Court was not unaffected. Previous members of the Constitutional Court took comfort in reflecting, with evident satisfaction, on the absence of racially loaded and racially defined splits. Dramatically, these now fractured the Court.
"Rainbows and Realities: Justice Johan Froneman in the Explosive Terrain of Linguistic and Cultural Rights" - Constitutional Court Review
JSC schedule for Constitutional Court interviews
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) cordially invites the media, both electronic and press to attend the interviews of the five shortlisted candidates for the vacant judicial position in the Constitutional Court which arose as a result of the retirement of Justice Zak Yacoob. Following the interviews, the JSC will have a media briefing to announce the names of the recommended names on the same day.
The five shortlisted candidates are:
- Judge L O Bosielo
- Judge S A M Baqwa
- Adv J J Gauntlett SC
- Adv M R W Madlanga SC; and
- Judge B S Spilg
The interviews will take place as follows:
Venue: Premier Hotel O R Tambo, Kempton Park
Date: 22 February 2013
Time: 09h00
Issued by the JSC
For more Information, please contact Adv Ntsebeza SC on 082 467 2490 or Mr CP Fourie on 082 881 1737
Email: Ntsebeza@mweb.co.za or CPFourie@fsf.co.za
