MKP wants to send its parliamentary leader, John Hlophe, to the JSC, whose finding of gross misconduct against him led to his removal. (Jan Gerber/News24)
ANC alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), called on Parliament to show some “moral fortitude and leadership and crack the whip over the increasing numbers of delinquent” MPs.
Among their concerns is the possibility that the National Assembly could elect disgraced former Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe, now the MK Party’s parliamentary leader, as a delegate to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).
The JSC is the body that appoints judges and conducts disciplinary proceedings against judges. It was the JSC finding Hlophe guilty of gross misconduct for trying to influence Constitutional Court judges to rule in favour of corruption-accused former president Jacob Zuma that led to him being the first judge in democratic South Africa to be removed.
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