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Video by Timothy Bernard<\/strong><\/p>\n Johannesburg – Tough and sensitive questions kept on being thrown at Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo on Thursday amid his interview for the position of Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It was revealed, during the first part of the question and answer session, that Public Protector Busiswe Mkhwabane had objected to Mlambo\u2019s candidacy in her personal and official capacity.<\/p>\n JSC Commissioner Thandazani Madonsela noted a comment by Democracy in Action, which had previously been litigated in support of former President Jacob Zuma and Mkhwebane.<\/p>\n Democracy in Action previously complained that Mlambo\u2019s rulings on the Public Protector were \u201cincoherent\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Madonsela said there was an \u201cundercurrent\u201d that Mlambo appeared to make favourable judgments on President Cyril Ramaphosa and not so favourable to Zuma and his administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mlambo replied by saying this was not true and that people were entitled to their opinions \u201cbut I make judgments based on the facts\u201d.<\/p>\n He further said he had no problem with Zuma and certainly did not have a \u201csoft spot\u201d for Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n In presenting his case on why he should be the next Chief Justice, Mlambo noted that in crafting his vision, he considered what was the proper location of the judiciary and the role of the Constitution as well as the role of Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He maintained that he also looked at the current context of the judiciary in South Africa.<\/p>\n He highlighted that the judiciary was a functional judiciary that had lived up to the contents of the Constitution but when he did an \u201cenvironmental scan\u201d, he found that there was a loss of confidence in the justice system and judiciary.<\/p>\n He said \u201cmore worrying\u201d, was that his scan revealed that the judiciary operated in a \u201csomewhat toxic\u201d manner, adding that the judiciary was attacked on a number of fronts and this was a function of a \u201cpolarised political space\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mlambo also raised concerns around unfounded allegations of corruption levelled against some judges as well as fake court orders produced.<\/p>\n While going through his seven pillar vision for the judiciary, Mlambo indicated that effective leadership was key and that there needed to be a judicial colloquium.<\/p>\n He further added that there needed to be consequence management, especially for those who took a prolonged time\u2013- sometimes up to two years \u2013 in handing down judgments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIf you can\u2019t write judgments then you should not be in the judiciary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n According to Mlambo, as Chief Justice, he would focus on the workings of the justice system in terms of accountability. He said there were people who have not been found guilty but are still languishing in jail.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is unacceptable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Video by Timothy Bernard Johannesburg – Tough and sensitive questions kept on being thrown at Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo on Thursday amid his interview for the position of Chief Justice. It was revealed, during the first part of the question and answer session, that Public Protector Busiswe Mkhwabane had objected to Mlambo\u2019s candidacy in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974827","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\/974827","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=974827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n\n\n\n\n