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
JSC: Shortlisted Candidates for Judicial Positions
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION
SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR JUDICIAL POSITIONS
On 16 July 2014, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) published notices in the media calling for nominations of interested persons to fill five vacancies in the various superior courts. The closing date for submission of nominations was set for 08 August 2014. On 26 August 2014, the JSC met and compiled a short list of candidates to be interviewed at its sitting to be held in Cape Town on 06-10 October 2014 as follows:
1. Eastern Cape Division of the High Court (Bhisho) One Vacancy)
Adv C T S Cossie
Ms S Jacobs
Mr T Malusi
Judge G N Z Mjali
2. Free State Division of the High Court (Judge President) (One vacancy)
Judge B C Mocumie
Judge M B Molemela
Judge K J Moloi
Judge M H Rampai
3. Labour Court (One vacancy)
Mr E T Tlhotlhalemaje
Ms B M Witcher
4. Western Cape Division of the High Court (Two vacancies)
Adv D M Davis
Ms G Salie- Samuels
Ms K M Savage
In total, the JSC has therefore shortlisted 13 candidates. 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
27 August 2014
