If passed, this will mean that Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo appointed by Jacob Zuma last year — who currently will have to retire in — would be able to serve as Chief Justice until along with judges Cameron and Froneman who would then also have to retire in Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, on the other hand, will then have to retire in — long before the end of the term of the current Chief Justice.
The proposals would therefore make it impossible for him ever to become Chief Justice. The question that comes to this suspicious mind is: why has Minister Jeff Radebe made this proposal now? Did he consult the Chief Justice and the other judges of the Constitutional Court? Why wait with the proposal until after four of the most compassionate and progressive judges have retired from the Constitutional Court and four new judges were appointed by the very guy who has had several run ins with the courts because he took money from a crook and then did favours for that crook?
When the Constitution was drafted there were long debates about the term to be served by judges of the Constitutional Court. It was pointed out then that South Africa should avoid the American example, where Supreme Court justices serve for life or until they fall over or retire. Sometimes they serve for 30 years or more, thus ensuring some influence for the President who appointed them many years after that President had retired or even died. Because judges of the South African Constitutional Court have enormous powers and because the exercise of these powers have political ramifications, it was felt that the Constitutional Court judges — unlike High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal judges — should serve a fixed term of no more than 15 years.
In this the drafters of our Constitution followed the wise model of the German Constitution and the Constitutions of many other modern democracies. The reasoning was simple and clear. The first judges were appointed in Read about the selection of the first judges here. Read about what it is like to be a Constitutional Court Judge. OCJ Judicial Vacancies. The notion of a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early s. The Freedom Charter of carried the idea forward.
Chief Justice: John G. Roberts , Jr. Associate Justices:. According to SupremeCourt. The number of Associate Justices is currently fixed at eight. Power to nominate the Justices is vested in the President of the United States, and appointments are made with the advice and consent of the Senate. The number of associate justices on the court over the years has varied from five to nine. The most current number, eight, was established in Supreme Court Justices have an extraordinarily important role to play in interpreting the U.
It has only been recently, however, that Justices have included women, non-Christians, or non-whites. Here are some fast, fun facts about America's Supreme Court Justices over the years.
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