Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng will ask police commissioner Khehla Sitole to investigate who is behind the twitter accounts spreading allegations that some judges got money from the CR17 campaign funds.
Faceless twitter accounts posted claims that some judges, who have, among other things, delivered judgments against public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and the EFF, received various amounts of money from the now controversial campaign fund — insinuating they could have been captured. He said that in the absence of concrete proof, he believed his colleagues, and that he had asked the secretary-general of his office to ask Sitole to use its capacity to uncover the “real forces” behind those spreading the allegations.They should make their identities and contact details available, he said. The chief justice said those making the allegations should be prepared to give evidence to support their allegations, and be willing to do so in a court of law or at a commission of inquiry.
Mkhwebane has had a number of he reports either set aside or put on review by the courts and has been ordered to pay up — in her personal capacity — for the Absa Bankorp matter, which looked into the apartheid-era loan from the Reserve Bank to Bankorp.