Saving the Wild calls upon Ramaphosa to act against suspended KZN judge president
The organisation also pleaded with president Ramaphosa to enforce accountability to all implicated justice officials
In honor of World Rhino Day, commemorated today, Saving the Wild in partnership with the Djimo Hounsou Foundation, makes an urgent plea to South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
The organisations wants the president to acknowledge the serious allegations of bribery against suspended KwaZulu-Natal court president Eric Nzimande, who has been receiving his full salary of around R1.4-million annually since his suspension on 5 October 2018.
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Saving the Wild states that, four years later, Nzimande has still not gone through a disciplinary hearing.
Again, the organisation also pleaded with president Ramaphosa to enforce accountability to all implicated justice officials who made payments into Nzimande’s bank account, and are under investigation by the magistrate’s commission and the police.
Saving the Wild Director Jamie Joseph, says the police are unable to make arrests until the KwaZulu-Natal director of public prosecutions, Elaine Zungu, signs off on the charge sheet.
In October 2017, Saving the Wild exposed the ‘Blood Rhino Blacklist’ an alleged syndicate of corrupt judges, magistrates, prosecutors, and defence attorneys who have for many years allegedly been taking bribes from those implicated in human trafficking, child rape and rhino poaching.
“One year later, on October 5th, 2018, South Africa’s Ministry of Justice suspended the KZN Court President Eric Nzimande due to alleged rampant corruption in his courts and alleged sexual harassment,” said Joseph.
“While on suspension for the last four years, Nzimande has received his full salary of roughly R1.4-million annually, but to date, not one justice official implicated in the investigation has been arrested, nor has anyone gone through a disciplinary hearing”.
“We call on the president of South Africa to acknowledge these atrocities, and bring sanctity back to the courts. The government states that rhino poaching is a high priority crime; why then is there no minimum sentence for rhino poaching?” she asked.
“In the case of rape and human trafficking, these victims who had the courage to come forward are being traumatised by magistrates drunk on power, and this blood money fuels their lifestyle. This is a web of corruption, and everyone is getting away with it,” Joseph alleged.
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