Retired judge threatens to sue complainant, media

Retired Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) Judge Mabel Jansen has threatened to sue after rumblings that she may face sanction from the JSC, according to a TimesLIVE report. This after an Mpumalanga farmer laid a complaint of misconduct against her for her role in a case she presided over in 2015. Le Roux alleged Jansen ‘colluded’ with the ‘Boere Mafia’ in an effort to aid them to fraudulently take over his family’s R211m farm in Mpumalanga for R28m. It was in the same year that Jansen courted controversy amid allegations of racism following a public discussion on Facebook in 2015 with filmmaker Gillian Schutte. In the exchange she said that 99% of criminal cases she heard were about ‘black fathers‚ uncles‚ brothers raping children as young as five’. She stepped down from the Bench in May. Jansen’s spokesperson‚ Tim Flack ‚ said that her accuser‚ Le Roux‚ had complained against her on a frivolous basis. ‘Many complaints are laid annually by disgruntled litigants against judges on spurious and frivolous grounds and that Mr Le Roux has a habit of doing this is a matter of record. The allegations made are denied by Jansen‚’ he said. He said she was considering taking legal action against Le Roux and the Independent Media Group‚ for publishing the allegations without approaching her for comment. ‘Jansen is also considering a defamation action against the IoL Group for publishing this story. She is similarly considering a defamation action against Mr Le Roux.’