JOHANNESBURG - Two Gauteng High Court judges are facing possible impeachment over tardy judgments, one of which involved an important Constitutional challenge to the Births and Deaths Registration Act that took a staggering 16 months to hand down.
The Judicial Service Commission announced it was recommending that judges Tshifhiwa Maumela and Nomonde Mngqibisa-Thusi be suspended, pending the outcome of a tribunal investigating delays that several of their judgments suffered. This was on the back of complaints Judge President Dunstan Mlambo lodged with the commission in late 2020.According to those reports, the complaints against Judges Maumela and Mngqibisa-Thusi were rooted in a string of judgments which were, at the time the complaints were lodged at least, reserved for between six and 26 months.
Judge Mngqibisa-Thusi heard arguments in the case in November 2019, but it wasn’t until March 2021 that she finally handed down her judgment. Another cited judgment involved a case between Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo over to the South African Revenue Service’s rogue unit report that Mngqibisa-Thusi had, at the time of the complaint, reserved for 11 months.
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