EFF CONDEMNS THE NAKED CAMPAIGN BY ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE RAYMOND ZONDO IN HIS RESPONSE TO MINISTER LINDIWE SISULU
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
The Economic Freedom Fighters condemns what is nothing but a naked campaign for the Office of the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court by Raymond Zondo, in his response to Minister Lindiwe Sisulu which lacked substance and purpose.
In an unnecessary press briefing, which tied the entire judiciary to a poorly articulated and empty response to an opinion piece, Zondo went on a repetitive tirade, framing a political discussion about the slow-pace of economic transformation in the country as an attack on the judiciary.
Inappropriately, Zondo seems to have taken a political debate, submitted to public discourse by someone who practices political oversight in this country, personally and inadvertently made our judiciary a participant in what is obviously an election battle within the ruling party.
It was not Zondo's place to respond to the Minister, because she is far better placed to assess the social and political conditions in this country as someone tasked with that responsibility. She has therefore in her political assessment, factored in the shortfalls of the judiciary in economic, social and political change in the country.