Six short-listed for two ConCourt vacancies

The JSC has announced the names of 22 short-listed candidates to be interviewed in April for a number of positions in various superior courts, including two vacancies at the Constitutional Court. It also announced it will interview Justice Xola Mlungisi Petse following his nomination by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the vacant position of deputy president of the SCA. A TimesLIVE report notes Ramaphosa nominated Petse on 2 February, in accordance with section 174(3) of the Constitution, which states the President, after consulting the JSC, appoints the president and deputy president of the SCA. ‘The Chief Justice has responded to the President, indicating that the JSC will interview Petse at its April sitting, whereafter it will provide the President with its views.’ There are six candidates for two vacancies at the Constitutional Court. They are High Court Judges Annali Basson, Patricia Goliath, Jody Kollapen and Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane and SCA Judges Stevan Majiedt and Zukisa Tshiqi. The JSC will also interview nine judges for five vacancies at the SCA. They are Daniel Dlodlo, Trevor Gorven, Caroline Nicholls, Yvonne Mbatga, Pieter Meyer, Fikile Mokgohloa, Selewe Mothle, Clive Plasket and Owen Rogers. Feziwe Renqe and Onica van Papendorp are the candidates for a single vacancy at the Eastern Cape High Court (Grahamstown). Labour Court Judges Edwin Molahlehi and André van Niekerk will be interviewed for the vacant position of Deputy Judge President of the Labour and Labour Appeal Courts and Judges Bulelwa Pakati and Mmathebe Phatsoane will be interviewed for the vacant Deputy Judge President position at the Northern Cape division of the High Court.

– TimesLIVE