The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will advise President Cyril Ramaphosa to suspend Western Cape judge president John Hlophe, it decided at a meeting on Monday night.
In August last year, the JSC decided, also by majority, that Hlophe was guilty of gross misconduct and to refer him to parliament for possible impeachment. The finding related to a 2008 complaint by all the then justices of the Constitutional Court that Hlophe had sought improperly to influence the outcome of cases then pending before the court related to corruption charges against former president Jacob Zuma.
The JSC’s decision followed a judicial conduct tribunal in 2020 which unanimously found that Hlophe had sought to influence two justices of the Constitutional Court to breach their oath of office.
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