The judicial process in South Africa is hugely contested. This places an exaggerated burden on the courts to act with maximum independence and impartiality.
The PEC wants the Supreme Court of Appeal judgement which found that the 2018 election of the PEC was unlawful and unconstitutional set aside with costs.
Former President Jacob Zuma said said that the court did not have the jurisdiction to hear the two cases brought by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and that what Zondo and the court did was to take away his right to have his review application heard and determined.
Wednesday is the last day that he was expected to tell Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng how he should be sentenced, if he is found guilty of contempt of court.
The high court found in favour of the applicants and declared that the act discriminated against black persons married before 1988, in particular, black women.
It followed claims that the the minister tried to influence the appointment of judges.
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng wrote to former President Jacob Zuma last week, giving him until Wednesday to propose an appropriate sentence in no more than 15 pages.
The Judicial Conduct Tribunal found Hlophe guilty of gross misconduct.
Zuma's lawyer has confirmed that he received the letter from Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng giving Zuma until Wednesday to reply with an affidavit of not more than 15 pages.
This follows government’s victory at the Labour Court last year after unions challenged its decision to unilaterally withdraw from the wage agreement.
Following its national executive committee meeting, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa sought to disassociate the governing party with those seeking to undermine the legitimacy of the courts.
This followed the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of the organisation’s appeal application to set aside a Labour Court ruling ordering Sama to pay back monies it unlawfully withheld from the Sama trade union for 20 years.
Former President Zuma has accused the judiciary of being beyond reproach, claiming that the country had an oppressive and unjust system.
He said the Constitutional Court was ignoring his repeated warnings about an alleged plot to destroy him - simply because he was the one raising the alarm.
Jacob Zuma’s supporters and critics made their voices heard outside the Constitutional Court while judges were remotely hearing the state capture commission’s application against the former president.
The Constitutional Court has reserved judgement in the former President Jacob Zuma matter. The state capture commission is asking the Constitutional Court to find Zuma guilty of contempt of court, and if found guilty, to jail him for two years. This after Zuma refused to appear before the commission of inquiry into alleged state capture.
The state capture commission is asking the Constitutional Court to find Jacob Zuma guilty of contempt of court, and if found guilty, to jail him for two years, where a small group of supporters for the former president gathered. #Zuma #Concourt #StateCapture
Judgement has been reserved in the state capture commission’s contempt of court application against former President Jacob Zuma.
