{"id":915702,"date":"2022-01-12T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/sisulu-crossed-the-line-by-insulting-the-judiciary-says-zondo\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T16:49:02","slug":"sisulu-crossed-the-line-by-insulting-the-judiciary-says-zondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/sisulu-crossed-the-line-by-insulting-the-judiciary-says-zondo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisulu crossed the line by insulting the judiciary, says Zondo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PRETORIA \u2013 Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo blasted Lindiwe Sisulu\u2019s actions saying she wrote her opinion piece like a young person with no facts, after the Tourism Minister penned a scathing article about the country\u2019s judiciary.<\/p>\n

In a briefing on Wednesday, Zondo said Sisulu\u2019s article which appeared on Africa News Global and titled \u201cHi Mzansi, have we seen justice?\u201d last week, was not based in facts but only insults.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sisulu questioned black judges, saying, among other things, they were \u201cmentally colonised Africans who have settled with the world view and mindset of those who have dispossessed their ancestors\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zondo said Sisulu\u2019s article was only rich in insult but very poor in substantiation and also lacked to produce any adverse judgments that judges have made in the past to support her theories.<\/p>\n

He said the judiciary was not beyond reproach or against criticism, however, Sisulu\u2019s article could not be classed as criticism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cCriticism must be fair, and should be based on a factual basis. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no facts put up by Sisulu. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just accusations. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is an unsubstantiated insult. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something a young person, with no access to facts, would write.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no analysis of anything. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s just accusations, insults to the judiciary\u2026 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is probably the worst insult that has been levelled against the judiciary,\u201d said Zondo. <\/p>\n

Zondo said it was regrettable that the insults came from a senior member of the ruling party, Parliament and the executive. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt should not be acceptable that a member of Parliament and the executive should, without any facts, choose to insult the judiciary in the way that Sisulu has. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very important that we draw the line about conduct\u2026 that is not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zondo said he did not intend to reach out to Sisulu but hoped she had the decency to withdraw the attack on the judiciary. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRETORIA \u2013 Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo blasted Lindiwe Sisulu\u2019s actions saying she wrote her opinion piece like a young person with no facts, after the Tourism Minister penned a scathing article about the country\u2019s judiciary. In a briefing on Wednesday, Zondo said Sisulu\u2019s article which appeared on Africa News Global and titled \u201cHi Mzansi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}