Quote of the week
A few months ago, author William Gumede described Zuma as someone with a narcissistic personality disorder — a set of traits defined by Austrian psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut as “including an exaggerated sense of superiority, a lack of self-awareness about the impact of their behaviour and having a disdain for others, who they devalue to validate their own grandiosity”. These people lack empathy, have a distorted sense of reality and are incapable of seeing anything from anyone else’s perspective. Narcissists like Zuma, Gumede argues, can’t accept responsibility and don’t care if they take down entire countries with them. The events at Nkandla, sadly for Zuma, only reinforced that perspective.
Financial Mail
Shortlist of candidates for Con Court position
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
JUDICIAL SERVICE COMMISSION
MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT
SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR CONSTITUTIONAL COURT VACANCY
On 23 October 2012, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) published an advertisement calling for nominations of interested persons to fill a vacancy in the Constitutional Court which will occur when Justice Zak Yacoob is discharged from active service at the end of January 2013. The closing date for the nominations was set for 23 November 2012.
Following the closing date, the JSC has compiled a shortlist of candidates to be interviewed for the above-mentioned position as follows:
- Judge Selby Alan Masibonge Baqwa
- Judge Lebotsang Orphan Bosielo
- Adv Jeremy John Gauntlett SC
- Adv Mbuyiseli Madlanga SC; and
- Judge Brian Solomon Spilg
The organized legal profession and institutions with an interest in the work of the JSC are requested to submit comments on the abovementioned candidates to the Secretariat of the JSC by no later than 07 February 2013.
The shortlisted candidates will be interviewed on 22 February 2013. Details of the time and venue for the interviews will be communicated to the shortlisted candidates in due course.
Issued by the Judicial Service Commission
Enq: Adv D Ntsebeza SC 0824672490 and Mr C P Fourie 0828811737
15 January 2013
