{"id":973315,"date":"2022-02-02T07:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/live-blog-jsc-interviews-justice-mandisa-maya-takes-the-hot-seat\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T07:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T07:39:24","slug":"live-blog-jsc-interviews-justice-mandisa-maya-takes-the-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/live-blog-jsc-interviews-justice-mandisa-maya-takes-the-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE BLOG: JSC interviews \u2013 Justice Mandisa Maya takes the hot seat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The proceedings in the #ChiefJusticeInterviews has begun. Chairperson Petse is making a few announcements such as proceedings will be adjourned for lunch at 13.50pm and resume at 3pm. Another adjournment will happen at 4pm. This is due to #loadshedding @IOL<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kailene Pillay (@kailenepillay) February 2, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Day 2 commences in the search for the country’s next chief justice.<\/p>\n

Supreme Court of Appeal President Mandisa Maya will take the hot seat today.<\/p>\n

Maya is a striking figure in the line-up of candidates for the top job as she is the only female to have been shortlisted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The tone was set on Tuesday during Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s interview when he was asked his thoughts on whether South Africa was ready for a female chief justice.<\/p>\n

Some panellists cast doubts on Madlanga’s stance on transformation after he evaded the question on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n

After almost eight hours of rigorous questioning during his interview, Justice Madlanga’s earlier pro-feminist views came into question when he all but laughed off the question of whether the country was ready for a woman to lead ConCourt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cape Town – The proceedings in the #ChiefJusticeInterviews has begun. Chairperson Petse is making a few announcements such as proceedings will be adjourned for lunch at 13.50pm and resume at 3pm. Another adjournment will happen at 4pm. This is due to #loadshedding @IOL \u2014 Kailene Pillay (@kailenepillay) February 2, 2022 Day 2 commences in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973315","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=973315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}