Serjeant at the Bar | State capture is alive and well at the Judicial Service Commission

President of Supreme Court of Appeal Mandisa Maya (Centre) arriving for the JSC interviews for South Africa’s next Chief Justice at Park Hotel in Sandton. (Photo by Gallo Images/Daily Maverick/Felix Dlangamandla)

The JSC, as presently constituted, is not fit for constitutional purpose and will only produce a judiciary fit for authoritarian rule, writes Sergeant at the Bar.

The JSC, as presently constituted, is not fit for constitutional purpose.

For almost a century, judicial appointments were made at the whim of the Minister of Justice. There was no transparency in these appointments.

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