ConCourt must save the day and overturn Hlophe's scandalous appointment to the JSC

28 July 2024 - 00:00

It’s perhaps a sign of the times that it’s been left to AfriForum to take up the cudgels for decency in public life. The civil rights organisation, often derided in some quarters as a bunch of cave-dwellers, this week approached the Constitutional Court to have the egregious appointment by parliament of John Hlophe to the Judicial Service Commission to be rescinded...

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