The former judge will be excluded from the interviews after the DA successfully obtained an interdict.
Advocate Dali Mpofu has accused Democratic Alliance (DA) federal chairperson Helen Zille of hypocrisy for opposing former judge John Hlophe’s participation in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) interviews.
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party’s urgent application was heard in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Friday.
The MK party is challenging the JSC’s decision not to accept the party’s request to postpone the interviews scheduled for next week.
The JSC is set to begin interviews next Monday to fill vacancies in various courts, including the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) and the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).
However, Hlophe will be excluded from the process after the DA and Corruption Watch successfully obtained an interdict preventing him from participating in the interviews.
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