JOHANNESBURG - Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has been aware of the allegations against Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe since late 2019, but the matter can only be resolved through the application of the law, he said on Sunday.
She also informed him that the alleged victim was uncertain about the appropriateness of reporting the alleged assault to the police and the Judicial Conduct Committee. This was so, she said, because the alleged victim thought Mogoeng would view reporting the matter to the police and Judicial Conduct Committee as conduct that would bring the judiciary into disrepute.
He also informed Goliath that failure by any judge to report these allegations to the structures with the legal authority to address them would be a betrayal of what judgeship or the judiciary was all about. He stood by this position and would always encourage any alleged wrongdoing or alleged crime to be reported promptly.
Instead, they had suggested that he either pleads with Hlophe to go on leave or somehow use the “prestige’’ of his office to “normalise’’ the Western Cape situation.
Has Judge Hlophe always brining our judiciary in disrepute?
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