General Council of the Bar flooded with complaints over Mpofu conduct
Advocate Dali Mpofu's conduct during interviews for the country's next Chief Justice has been called into question.
The General Council of the Bar has confirmed it's received a number of requests to remove Mpofu as a commissioner from the Judicial Service Commission.
This follows complaints about what it calls, "the sexist nature of his questioning," when Supreme Court of Appeal president Mandisa Maya was being interviewed.
The complaints forwarded to the General Council of the Bar include that Mpofu resorted to offensive and unprofessional questioning of Maya and that he has brought the advocates' profession and the administration of justice into disrepute.
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Hours after the complaints were confirmed last night, 20 of the country's prominent legal eagles have hit back - saying Mpofu's come under attack because of his race.
The lawyers penned a letter in which they accuse News24 editor-in-chief, Adriaan Basson, of treating Africans as so-called "sub-humans".
In the letter, advocates including Dumisa Ntsebeza, Nomgcobo Jiba and Menzi Simelane commented on Basson's article last week, in which he strongly criticised Mpofu, labelling him a scoundrel and immoral.
