#Mhlope zacc trial#

#Mhlope zacc trial#

In 2005 Hlophe was reported to have said that he allocated an Afrikaans language rights case to senior Cape High Court Judge Wilfred Thring 'because I knew he would fuck up the trial and then it could be set right on appeal'.In the aftermath of controversy as to the authorship of a majority judgment in the name of Judge NJ Yekiso in the same matter that had attracted the Supreme Court of Appeal's censure, Hlophe accused certain white judges and leading members of the Cape Bar of racism in a 43-page report submitted to the Minister of Justice in November 2004. He also accused his deputy, Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso, of racism.

In 2004 Hlophe wrote a report to Chief Justice Pius Langa alleging racism at the Cape Bar.

Hlophe was reported to have said with regard to the ruling that he '. couldn’t care less.' A complaint about his conduct was laid with the Judicial Service Commission. His ruling was summarily overturned by the Supreme Court of Appeal in a judgment that was harshly critical of him.

Having been informed that the application would be made directly to the Supreme Court of Appeal, he refused leave to appeal days before the Supreme Court of Appeal considered the matter. In an unprecedented step the unsuccessful party in the matter had been forced by Hlophe's failure to either grant or refuse leave to appeal and had applied directly to the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa for leave to appeal.

In a 2004 case between Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and elements of the pharmaceutical industry, Hlophe was accused of 'unreasonably' delaying his judgement on leave to appeal.

He was appointed to head the court in 2000. He was the first full-time academic to be appointed as a High Court Judge.

Hlophe taught law at the University of Transkei, South Africa, before being appointed in 1995, aged 36, to sit as the first black judge in the High Court in Cape Town. 4 Allegation of interference with Constitutional Court Judgesīorn in Stanger, Natal, he was educated at the University of Natal the University of Fort Hare and Cambridge University.3 Consideration by the Judicial Service Commission.