Fraser’s objection to Zondo’s nomination is a joke

THE latest tirade regarding former prisons boss Arthur Fraser that Deputy Chief Justice Zondo “is unfit” to hold the post of chief justice, is based on him not being given a chance to make representations at the Zondo commission.

The joke is: since when does Arthur Fraser think he is so important to sway a pending judicial appointment based on his sentiment or ill treatment?

In fact, even if Deputy Chief Justice Zondo was not in the running, based on this it becomes imperative that he is given the post as it would now seem a bias against him.

I can imagine if Fraser was an “Indian” how the anti-Indian group would have howled at an Indian trying to block a rural African’s appointment.

I wonder what the RET lobby will have to say about Fraser blocking the advancement of Africa, more so from KZN.

Fraser is a civil servant pensioner and how does his sentiment influence a pending judicial appointment? Senility catches up fast it seems. Arthur Fraser had a bumpy career and his track record regarding the latest being where he overruled the Prisons Medical Parole Board regarding a prisoner and gave this prisoner a medical parole. To put it differently can you imagine a convicted murderer given medical parole by the prisons boss overruling the Prisons Medical Board and the same former boss arguing against a judicial appointment!

The commission is not a criminal or civil trial and the report is only a recommendation.

Majority of judicial commissions, despite the costs, end up collecting dust and are forgotten.

Fraser should wait for the report from the commission, read the report then decide which way to go regarding the report and not Deputy Chief Justice Zondo.