WLC concerned with lack of equality in judiciary
Athenkosi Mvane
The Women’s League Centre says that it is
greatly concerned that no women were nominated to be justices in the Constitutional
Court
None of the five short listed candidates
for the Court vacancy was a woman.
Director of the WLC Jennifer Williams
said that the country is made up of 51.3 % of the population being female;
having only two female justices in the highest court on constitutional matters
is inexcusable.
Williams said that the constitution requires that the judiciary reflect the population of
We are very disappointed with this, and we
believe that the lack of women judges is symptomatic of the underlying equality
of women in the country” Williams added.
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