Freedom Under Law (FUL) wants the votes to remove disgraced judges John Hlophe and Nkola Motata before the State of the Nation Address.
Elizabeth Sejake/Sunday Times
Freedom Under Law (FUL) wants the votes to remove disgraced judges John Hlophe and Nkola Motata before the State of the Nation Address (SONA), as initially planned.
FUL, who intervened several times in the protracted attempts to hold Hlophe, the suspended Western Cape Judge President, and Motata to account, wrote to Parliament in this regard.
In a letter addressed to Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, ANC chief whip Pemmy Majodina, and the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services, FUL’s lawyers, of the firm Webber Wentzel, noted that the portfolio committee intended to have the vote take place before the end of the year, but that the National Assembly Programme Committee (NAPC) determined this would not be possible and intended to schedule a sitting for late January.
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