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President of Tribunal Ngoepe and Chief Justice Maya ‘still consulting’ on media attendance UPDATE: SABC is reporting on Sunday morning that Monday’s hearing will deal only with preliminary matters. BY RAY HARTLE On Monday, October 7, 2024, the judicial tribunal
Rules to prevent sexual harassment, encourage reporting & protect victims, signed off before chief justice’s retirement RAY HARTLE In one of his last official duties just a day before his retirement on August 31, former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo signed
By RAY HARTLE On Tweede Nuwejaar (second New Year), January 2, 2023, I received a call from Mthatha attorney and member of the Judicial Services Commission Mvuzo Notyesi, clearly seeking to dissuade me from publishing a news article he believed
The Judicial Conduct Committee who met on June 28 2023 to consider the sexual harassment complaint against Judge-President Selby Mbenenge comprised judges Dumisani Zondi, Tati Makgoka and Nolwazi Mabindla-Boqwana, all members of the Supreme Court of Appeal. In its ruling
Chief Justice Held Claims To Be Unsubstantiated Reporting on Eastern Cape Courts JUDGES & JUDGMENTS By RAY HARTLE Two years after the Office of the Chief Justice was first asked if it had received an anonymous letter containing allegations of
By RAY HARTLE The complainant in the allegations of sexual harassment against Judge-President Mbenenge was identified from the first media report – in the Sunday Times – as Andiswa Mengo, an official in the Makhanda high court. The complainant has
Reporting on Eastern Cape Courts JUDGES & JUDGMENTS By RAY HARTLE The complaint of sexual harassment against Eastern Cape Judge-President Selby Mbenenge is likely to dominate news about the judiciary this year. Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is due to constitute
RAY HARTLE South Africa’s deputy chief justice Mandisa Maya, in the Bhisho high court on Friday to celebrate a hundred years of SA women lawyers, said the country’s judiciary would “very soon” have a sexual harassment policy to protect women
RAY HARTLE South Africa’s Judicial Service Commission will on Monday, 2 October 2023, discuss the referral to a judicial tribunal of a complaint of sexual harassment against Eastern Cape judge-president Selby Mbenenge. The JSC will meet in Sandton throughout the
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