Black ‘corruption gene’ claim stokes race row among South African judges

Sunday Times
Karen MacGregor, Durban



SOUTH AFRICA’S judiciary has been divided by an acrimonious race row after one of its most senior judges accused a white colleague of claiming that blacks had “corruption in their genes”.

The charge is among a series of allegations made by John Hlophe, the Cape judge president, in an unpublished 43-page report, a copy of which has been obtained by The Sunday Times. It also claims that white barristers “despise” black judges, that they arrange to have cases postponed when they are allocated to black judges, and attend “whites only” lunches.

Black judges who make mistakes are ridiculed, claims Hlophe’s report: judgments are marked with red pen and circulated among bar members. They have apparently also been told not to speak Zulu in the chambers of a white judge.

While many in the legal establishment dispute the allegations, Hlophe is being supported by 10 black judges in Pretoria, the capital, who praised his “lone efforts to highlight the spectre of racism in the judiciary”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1512618,00.html

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No other reason.

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