PAC boss reports Desai to JSC

According to the Saturday Star, Pan Africanist Congress chairperson in Gauteng, Thami ka Plaatjie claimed Desai did not have the ‘impeccable character’ needed in a judge. Plaatjie raised three issues in his complaint to the JSC\'s chairperson, Chief Justice Pius Langa. The report notes that the first relates to Desai\'s conduct in Mumbai in 2004, when he was accused of raping a South African AIDS activist during the World Social Forum. A court later found that the sex had been consensual. Plaatjie noted that Desai had reportedly denied the incident at first and questioned the judge\'s morality, and why he had sex with a married woman. The second complaint relates to an alleged row in the Cape High Court judges\' common room in April 2006 when Desai reportedly confronted Judge John Foxcroft, who had blamed him for attacks on Hlophe in the media. Plaatjie wanted to know whether Desai had difficulty ‘controlling his temper’. The third complaint related to the defamation suit brought by the Oasis property company against Desai for allegedly defamatory remarks he made at a public meeting held to discuss a property development. Plaatjie said that the same principle that applied to complaints against Hlophe should apply to Desai. Full Saturday Star report