THE PERSONAL-PROFESSIONAL CORRUPTION OF DUNSTAN MLAMBO, DEPUTY CHIEF JUSTICE OF SOUTH AFRICA

Anthony Brink

corrupt-judges.co.za

December 2025 - revised and expanded

'Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.'
-- Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (1893)

Readers may recall that Deputy Chief Justice Dunstan Mlambo (then Judge President ('JP') of the Gauteng Division of the High Court, and referred to thus herein) was questioned by no less than four members of the Judicial Service Commission ('JSC') during his nationally televised interview for the Chief Justice post on 2 February 2022 regarding rumours about his irregular interactions with the ladies in his professional orbit -- a matter that then-Deputy, now Chief Justice Mandisa Maya had recently raised privately with certain prominent individuals on two separate occasions, according to a report by the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism, published shortly after the interview by the Daily Maverick.

Its writer Rebecca Davis had immediately dismissed commissioner Dali Mpofu SC's awkward questions to Mlambo JP about this as 'balls of shit', while mewing what an 'undeniably appealing', 'most impressive' 'magnificent' 'wizard' the judge is, 'rock-steady' 'in the eye of the storm', in that 'unknowable vortex', in that 'whirlpool of dark matter', as the 'flames were reaching their greatest intensity' (do go on dear, keep gushing) -- just as News24 writer Karyn Maughan, blowing him just as hard as an equally adoring wilted spinster, later claimed he'd been 'falsely' and 'wrongly accused' of putting it around, or trying to.

Before getting into the rotten meat of this essay, let's review their coverage of Mlambo JP's misconduct to date. It's a reminder of the adage: 'You don't hate the media enough. You think you do but you don't.'

Miss Maughan's defensive plaint for Mlambo JP echoed her previous reflexive dismissal on 29 November 2023 of my several documented criminal charges against him as 'false allegations', just a few weeks before Constitutional Court Justice Elizabeth Nkabinde (ret.) and Supreme Court of Appeal Justice Ephraim Makgoka on the JSC's Judicial Conduct Committee ('JCC') Appeal Committee found exactly contrariwise in their comprehensive, 42-page decision on 19 February 2024 that my criminal complaints against him had been facially well made on the documentary and other evidence I'd adduced; that Mlambo JP's responses to them were unsupported and contradicted by this evidence, and consequently unsatisfactory and unconvincing; and that he had a case to answer before a Judicial Conduct Tribunal accordingly.

Which embarrassing big news, exposing her prodigiously irresponsible lie to her readers in a matter of such colossal national importance, Miss Maughan dishonestly hid from them by studiously not reporting it, even as she'd forged her professional reputation on the pretence that when it comes to telling the truth, 'I Will Not Be Silenced'. Of course Miss Davis was silent about it too. So was her Daily Maverick colleague Marianne Thamm, even though the Appeal Committee decision, reported by the South African Broadcasting Corporation on all its platforms, vindicated everything I'd detailed to her about Mlambo JP's criminal corruption at a face-to-face briefing I gave her for over an hour back in October 2020.

Unlike these three abysmally derelict, unprofessional journalists, violating their readers' trust, Franny Rabkin wrote the decision up for the Sunday Times; and indeed her editors appreciated her major article about it to be so important that they billed it on the newspaper's street posters around the country that weekend.

In short, these two senior judges on the Appeal Committee disagreed with Miss Maughan, this hideous dried-up old hag living her best life with her cats, boxed wine, and fried eggs, turning her tricks by constantly denigrating me in her columns with the negatively supercharged but empty signifier 'denialist', for doing this quite unrelated, incalculably important, but unpopular and lonely work decades ago at considerable personal cost -- not denying but affirming piles and piles of horrific research reports (more, more) published in mainstream medical and scientific journals but never mentioned in the newspapers. The sting of this shrivelled crone's insult was that I'm a dishonest, contemptible sort of bloke who disingenuously disputes things he knows to be true, like a liar in a courtroom. And in bad-jacketing me in this feel-good, virtue-signalling, social approval-craving manner, this shelved pick-me bimbo's intention was obviously to discredit me personally as Mlambo JP's accuser by way of standard feminine verbal reputation subversion and destruction, and in that way put down in the public mind my true capital charges against him -- running cover for him like a PR whore doing it just for the money, with zero interest in the truth and even less in the public interest that she professes to serve fearlessly as our country's highest paid, body-guarded journalist.

Naturally, it never occurred to either of Misses Maughan or Davis -- these quintessential members of the unskilled middle class employed by the newspapers -- to investigate the tumescent allegations raised against Mlambo JP at his said interview, before dismissing them. This is because, to these ridiculous, useless, deracinated, childless, expired, strong and independent, peak feminist, genetic dead-ends, doing so would have been too much like actual journalism -- of the kind Franny Rabkin did, in taking the trouble to go out and source the JCC Appeal Committee's decision against Mlambo JP and to study it, even before I did. Maybe because unlike those former two lazy, yapping, self-important wannabes pouring out their silly girlie feelings about things into their MacBooks at the coffee shop, the latter is an actual qualified lawyer who clerked at the Constitutional Court and practised as an attorney before turning to serious legal journalism and becoming the editor of a major legal journal, and who therefore understands what evidence is and how it works. Even against powerful judges.

You won't be able to read the sweaty questions and answers at Mlambo JP's interview, because the chairman of the JSC panel ordered them expunged from the record, on the grounds, he said, that they were insufficiently particular and that Mlambo JP hadn't been advised to expect them.

Actually, Mlambo JP had been tipped that his colleagues were onto his extramural sports after dark: He told the panel that 'when the chief justice nomination process started, he received a call from a retired judge who said he had heard something disturbing about him. "I was shocked. I asked, 'Why are people saying things about me?'" he said. When he asked for a name, Mlambo said the judge said he did not have a name. "I had a discussion with no-one because I ascribed it to the rumour mill that always happens in the judiciary. I did not think it was worthy of me to act on it. It is a rumour that is difficult to pin down. Who, where, why are they not coming out?" Mlambo said he felt pained that the rumour had found its way into his interview. "I just feel it gives credence to the poisoning of the candidature that I have in this position. It started gaining steam in this process. Clearly its purpose is to poison my candidature."'

It's true though that the questions put to him weren't exactly specific; and commissioner Mpofu SC, who'd pushed hardest, unfortunately tergiversated at the end under pressure of all the furious blowback. Miss Davis reported that 'Mpofu took the microphone again just to clarify that he, personally, did not believe Mlambo could possibly be guilty of sexual harassment -- but he considered it his duty to allow Mlambo to tackle these rumours head-on.'

As for Mlambo JP's feigned wounded plaint, 'why are they not coming out?, Miss Davis opined: 'The public was offered the opportunity to submit any objection they liked to the four shortlisted JSC candidates, and hundreds did. None, to our knowledge, mentioned sexual harassment claims against Mlambo. What does that prove? Nothing. There are countless reasons why a woman in that situation might not want to put her claims into the open -- not least because a senior member of the judiciary is potentially a scary enemy.' But despite this momentarily rational line of reasoning, Miss Davis aggressively rejected the possibility that her darling judge had gravely misconducted himself as suggested, mentally overwhelmed by all those dizzying hormones.

The Legal Practice Council ('LPC') subsequently charged Mpofu SC on the basis 'That you contravened the Code of Conduct by bringing the legal profession into disrepute when you on 2 February 2022, at the Judicial Service Commission interview of Judge President D Mlambo, descended into character assassination with allegations of a rumour that he was guilty of the sexual harassment of female aspiring judges and that you persisted with your questioning, without providing any evidence or detail on what evidence or facts you were basing your questions.'

One answer to Mlambo JP's question, 'why are they not coming out?, is that at least two of these 'aspiring judges' were well satisfied by him. Obviously if they were open to trade, and he perfected the deal, they'd have no reason to be 'coming out' complaining about the price they'd willingly paid for the leg up from his bed to the bench. They wouldn't have considered his amorous attention harassment if they were in for the ride.

Which is to say, the actual problem, the really big and incomparably graver issue never raised at Mlambo JP's interview, was his grossly corrupt pattern of judicial misconduct in rewarding personal favours granted in the hotel with professional career advancement, in other words his infamous penchant for exchanging occupational benefits for personal ones.

The questions arising then are: Were the sexy inquiries by multiple panel members about Mlambo JP's conduct behind the closed door of his judicial chambers really sprung from 'false and malicious ... insidious, poisonous rumour with no truth in it', as he protested? Were the spicy questions really just low 'balls of shit being lobbed at him' to wreck his chances; and was he really 'falsely' and 'wrongly accused', as those eager ladies tingling in the panty jealously shrieked in the newspapers?

A former senior financial officer in the national office of Legal Aid SA ('LASA'), with no personal or professional axe to grind against Mlambo JP as far as I could tell, and who told me she'd routinely needed to stay on late at the office for work reasons she described to me, and so got to see a lot, remarked that while he chaired that criminal law firm it was 'the Devil's playground' and that he famously 'ran Legal Aid like his bedroom'. Also that he'd once asseverated to other women in her presence, 'It's not harassment if she consents.' And, more specifically, that after one of his mistresses at LASA had soared through its management ranks right up to Regional Operations Executive -- very surprisingly to everyone besides those in the know as to the open secret why -- he'd fixed her a permanent appointment as a judge soon after she resigned. (Her name and Division supplied to me.)

A former national executive at LASA, also with no particular grudge against him that I could see, just disgust at his immorality and abuse of power, related to me how after travelling to the Justice Centre he headed at the time to address his staff, and lodging for the weekend nearby, Mlambo JP ordered him right afterwards to promote a certain junior female attorney in his charge to a specific senior position. (Her first name given to me, her surname he'd forgotten.) The post didn't even exist at that Justice Centre, so wasn't vacant and hadn't been advertised, much less duly shortlisted and interviewed for.

Joining the dots and appalled, the former executive told me he'd complained of this outrageous irregularity to LASA's CEO and Human Resources Executive ('HRE'), but got brushed off. Little did he know when making his complaint that the HRE and His Lordship were hotly acquainted after-hours. So the former financial officer informed me many years later.

Would you be terribly surprised then to learn that the former executive -- once a beaming poster-boy at LASA, exemplifying its promise of rapid career advancement through competence, diligence and dedication -- got himself squeezed out on a bullshit disciplinary charge soon afterwards?

Which he determinedly fought through not one, but two rounds of trials and appeals in the CCMA, Labour- and Labour Appeal Courts, winning and losing like a yo-yo until his final disappointment, utterly disillusioned by the 'evil, evil' organisation that had spat him out. And by the judicial system that had ultimately failed him.

The former executive told me that Mlambo JP's longer-term intimate relationship with another female attorney at LASA was notorious among staff in the organisation, and that it had depressed morale at his Justice Centre. (Her name supplied.) He informed me that after her meteoric rise though LASA's management ranks culminating with a Regional Operations Executive appointment (just like the other chick), repeatedly favoured on her way up by her said paramour (notice the pattern), she suddenly resigned her lucrative top job one step ahead of a disciplinary enquiry on a charge of corrupting a recruitment process for the benefit of a friend of hers.

He told me that irrespective of this crassly unethical woman's very obvious unsuitability for the position, Mlambo JP shortly afterwards fixed his now unemployed lady-friend an appointment to the first Tribunal originally convened to try the Constitutional Court's complaint against Hlophe JP (as he then was) -- from which she again abruptly resigned, this time when the accused judge objected to her appointment on account of her sultry relationship with Mlambo JP, known to him.

Corroborating this, then-JSC Secretary Sello Chiloane later recalled on the phone to me that indeed she'd resigned 'to avoid an unseemly scandal' (his exact words).

After being repeatedly illegally blocked by the JSC in my attempts to access relevant records in the affair under the Promotion of Access to Information Act ('PAIA'), I resorted to approaching Hlophe JP directly to verify or disconfirm the former executive's claims regarding his objection to this woman, the covert relationship as the basis of his objection, and her resignation from the Tribunal in response; and he reacted to my letter by picking up his phone and confirming that he'd indeed objected to her membership of the Tribunal on account of her 'inappropriate sexual relationship' with Mlambo JP (his exact words), and that indeed she'd immediately jumped ship in response to his objection, just as the former executive had claimed and the JSC Secretary had remembered.

For more about Mlambo JP's further involvement as a ranking member of the JSC in Hlophe JP's impeachment, and his successful elimination thereby of his obvious future rival for the Chief Justice slot when it opened up -- in a split decision, with Mlambo JP writing for the majority against him, and the minority strenously dissenting -- see key case documents here. (How Mlambo JP poisoned the ground in the Zuma contempt case is detailed here.)

Reckoning everyone had forgotten about his corrupt rigging of the first Tribunal in the Hlophe JP case a decade earlier, Mlambo JP, behaving like the incorrigible habitual recidivist criminal he is, fixed his same side-squeeze another Tribunal appointment, this one convened to try Makhubele J -- despite the septic circumstances in which she'd resigned from the original Hlophe JP Tribunal 'to avoid an unseemly scandal' after the latter had objected to her 'inappropriate sexual relationship' with him.

If only Makhubele J had known that one of the members of the Tribunal appointed to decide whether she or Mlambo JP was telling the truth or telling lies under oath in their conflicting testimonies concerning a core factual dispute was none other than his inamorata -- no doubt discussing the case with him at the end of each day of the hearing on the phone if not on the mattress.

My separate, detailed discussion of this scandal canvasses also the flat-out illegality of this certain woman's appointment, so obviously irregularly and corruptly fixed behind the scenes, in that she met none of the several specific qualifying requirements mandated by the Judicial Service Commission Act as a prerequisite for any person to be considered by the President for appointment to a Tribunal established to try a judge on a misconduct charge. And it recounts how the JSC persistently illegally obstructed my access to duly requested records in the matter of the equally corruptly and also illegally constituted Tribunal in the earlier Hlophe JP case, before finally giving the game away.

Still more instances of Mlambo JP's personal-professional corruption, and his direct involvement in other recruitment corruption, have been detailed to me from within judicial and LASA circles.

These include the case of another friendly female, then working and residing in a distant province, strangely picked by Mlambo JP for appointment as an acting judge in his court in Pretoria, Gauteng, for whom he fixed accomodation in Johannesburg where he lives, and not in Pretoria where his court in which she acted is located; for whom he fixed a hired car for her to travel daily between these cities, as well as flights home every weekend, all at state expense in an abuse of the public purse at his disposal; and whom he finally rewarded for obliging him in the evenings by using his influence to fix her a permanent appointment as a judge of a different Division, where she was completely unknown, having been entirely out of contention for appointment to the High Court bench in her home province, not being regarded by anyone there as even remotely sufficiently qualified and experienced. (Her name and Division supplied to me.)

It's not known whether Judge Portia Phahlane of the Gauteng Division formerly headed by Mlambo JP, who was arrested for bribery and corruption on 26 November 2025 (news reports here and here), got her job arranged by him in consideration for putting out for the usual hot beef injection taken in the roast chicken or pile driver position. But speaking generally the former financial officer told me, 'You have to assume (with certainty) that every woman that got a senior post in any of the Gauteng courts she saw him naked.'

Now here's the cherry on the cake. The JSC panel that interviewed Mlambo JP for the Deputy Chief Justice ('DCJ') post in July 2025 believed and expressly relied on his bare-faced lie told to deceive, mislead and defraud it during his unsuccessful interview for the Chief Justice post in February 2022 that the sexual misconduct rumour about him raised by four commissioners was 'false and malicious' and intended unfairly to 'poison my candidature'. And in recommending him for appointment to the DCJ post in 2025, certain of its members 'who spoke on condition of anonymity' explained that 'the commission's unambiguous endorsement of Mlambo was necessary redress for the unjustified attacks on his character and integrity that he endured in 2022. ... "We've corrected a major injustice done over three years ago. That's what matters about this appointment." Another JSC source agreed ... Mlambo ... had shown ... profound "moral courage" in his years on the Bench.' Can you believe it?!

Given Mlambo JP's personal-professional corruption described above, his habitual criminal mendacity, and his absolute lack of any moral scruples, his appointment by the President as the country's second-top judge, and then his delegation by the Chief Justice as chairman of the JCC, obviously have extremely serious negative ramifications for the integrity of our judiciary and for the JSC's constitutionally imposed disciplinary responsibilies and processes regarding other delinquent judges.

Some of Mlambo JP's hoes are now judges. I've mentioned just two of them; how many more? (Lemme know.) What kind of integrity from the bench can litigants expect when pleading their causes before these sluts? What chance of justice if their cases dismissed by these bitches end up before the Constitutional Court in which their polyamorous boyfriend presides? How likely is he to volunteer his recusal on the basis that he's conflicted because he knows the judge of the trial court below? And what chance will a judicial misconduct complainant have of a fair hearing before the JCC in a beef against any female judge who's rolled and yelled with its chairman?

Seemingly aware of more than he'd let on at the February 2022 interview, Mpofu SC pressed Mlambo JP: 'Are there any victims somewhere out there who might come out when you are chief justice, which would embarrass the country?' No, he replied. Interviewed on television three years later about the LPC's decision to charge him with professional misconduct for asking these rude questions, Mpofu SC promised a big fun time at his hearing: 'What do they expect me to do, to call them and put them up in public ... ?' The LPC's case against him, he said, 'comes from someone who also seeks to discredit those esteemed members of our judiciary' -- implying unequivocally that he had the names of the female 'aspirant judges' whom Mlambo JP had tried extorting for their private favours, and maybe the names of those he'd indeed banged and were now on the bench, and that an open hearing would leave him seriously burned.

For his part, Mlambo JP was was notably unenthusiastic about the prospect of Mpofu SC being tried for elliptically raising his nocturnal improprieties, concerned no doubt that some hard particulars stood to be aired: He was 'not unhappy that they are pursuing this process', he said weakly of the LPC's decision to prosecute. But he was clearly anxious to avoid being called to the witness stand and being cross-examined under oath on his behaviour when the lights were out. The LPC, he said, 'generally does not require judges, due to their position as judicial officers, to testify in disciplinary proceedings. My own view is Dali Mpofu's actions are in the public domain. They are recorded. No one needs to be called to come and testify that he did one, two, three. Everything that happened was captured.'

If he'd had any brains -- quite the contrary, he complained at his February 2022 interview that his law professors and tutors had found him as dumb as a stump (disagreeing with Miss Davis quoted above, whose excited rating of him as 'most impressive' and 'magnificent' clearly didn't concern his tiny mental organ), and a top Black silk told me he's a 'legal wrecking-ball', an embarrassing 'affirmative action disaster' -- he'd have told the LPC to just drop it, as Maya CJ did concerning an unrelated charge against Mpofu SC for a gauche joke he'd made, in which charge she'd been named on the assumption that she'd been aggrieved by it. Plainly tired of all these swinging dicks, Maya CJ protested that it was 'utterly disrespectful and patronising' that the LPC had charged Mpofu SC on the back of the NGO Casac's sanctimonious complaint about his silly gag at her interview without having asked her attitude to it, let alone sought her support for the case: 'The arrogance of men-led Casac and the Legal Practice Council to arrogate upon themselves the right to be offended on my behald and on behalf of women generally, without so much as a word to these women, is breathtaking and feels to me very much like gross partiarchy cloaked in false chivalry.' The LPC reacted by smartly dropping that charge.

The future possibilities for Mpofu SC's disciplinary case are portended by the disastrous miscalculation Oscar Wilde made at the height of his literary career in charging the Marquess of Queensbury with criminal libel for outing his affair with Queensbury's son, and getting him falsely arrested and unsuccessfully prosecuted. Lord Geoffrey Archer made a similar calamitous mistake in suborning and committing perjury to lie his way out of a news report of his night away from his wife, enjoyed with a professional good-time girl.

Mlambo JP's reluctance to testify and be cross-examined on his post-prandial amusements, and the fees in kind that he paid for them, has a precedent in my own experience. One of the criminal lies that the JCC Appeal Committee found Mlambo JP should come and please explain on oath before a Tribunal was committed in an affidavit that he instructed his attorney to put up on his behalf in opposition to my application for leave to subpoena him for cross-examination in the Labour Court (headed by him at the time) on all the criminal lies he'd told the Justice Minister and the Justice Portfolio Committee of the National Assembly to deceive and defraud them and pervert and defeat their special ministerial and parliamentary enquiries instituted into documented high-level recruitment corruption at LASA (also headed by him at the time), and on all the stupid internally contradictory and objectively contradicted lies told to me and to LASA's Board to cover it. Which same stupid lies told by Mlambo JP to the Minister and the Portfolio Committee, the Appeal Committee scrutinised and saw clean through, and recommended that he please explain before the Tribunal too.

By the way, I'm in the same boat as Mpofu SC as far as the LPC goes. Despite having been furnished with the JCC Appeal Committee's decision, in which those two top judges found my documented criminal charges against Mlambo JP well made, objectively vouched, credible, and answerable before a Tribunal, the LPC has nonetheless just decided that I should be prosecuted, with a view to my disbarment, on LASA's, really Mlambo JP's, complaint a decade ago in November 2015 that I'd falsely and unprofessionally impugned his integrity. Even after Justices Nkabinde and Makgoka found I hadn't.

None of the aforegoing mentions of Mlambo JP's prolific, compulsive infidelities are intended as any kind of criticism of his deeply ingrained native culture as a traditional polygamous Tsonga tribesman. I accept that he and I conceive of the institution of marriage, and the relationship between the sexes, completely differently in our respective cultures, and that such alien Western Christian norms as loyalty, devotion, fidelity, duty, sacrifice, restraint, consistency, responsibility, reciprocity, perseverance, and commitment in my culture -- the bedrock of Western civilization and all its magnificent, towering artistic, musical, architectural, institutional, legal, philosophical, agricultural, scientific and technological innovations and achievements -- find no echo in his own, brought down from the Congo Basin by his ancestors into Mozambique and parts of South Africa, spoliating the lighter built, lighter hued indigenes of their lands on the way, variously by spearing them and driving them into the hills and deserts. As they complained in their rock paintings on the cave walls of their mountain hide-outs.

Incidentally, Mlambo JP is the first generation of his tribe, along with this country's others, to have been privileged with free, universal, Western-style schooling generously provided by the White government from 1953, in a bid to bring it into modernity, before which, besides a tiny sprinking of the mission-school-educated, his people had been completely illiterate and inumerate, still barefoot and in skins just a few generations ago, just as they'd been for thousands of years, living at the very summit of their civilizational development in, shall we say, a state of nature. Unfortunately, as his unreconstructed barbarity made plain, the old government's optimistic attempt to civilize him, and inculcate in him the Western Christian values necessary to operate properly in a modern Western society, proved unsuccessful.

Indeed, his radically different values in the matter of the sexes find expression in his tribe's many relevant proverbs, such as (per Grok):

Let's take a quick dive into the contrasting Western Christian view of these things, at least at the level of the ideal towards which my own completely different culture strives, because it's so illuminating:

The ancient Greeks -- the antecedents of my civilization, highly developed thousands of years ago, unlike Mlambo JP's -- recognised back then that monogamy was the absolutely necessary foundation of a civilised state comprising a natural hierarchy of citizens in a republic (not subjects in a monarchy), and they imposed it legally, evenly with their outlawing of polygamy. As Dr Ricardo Duchesne, former professor at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, has explained, this is because 'they were the first to become conscious of their consciousness and thus to separate their ego from its embeddedness in nature, which allowed them to impose their own intentionally decided norms above the world of biologically determined polygynous kin-based norms. … Throughout all the societies witnessed in history, except the societies created by Europeans, humans practiced polygamy as a naturally selected mating strategy for the transmission of the most biologically fit genes. Only Europeans, in ancient times, and thereafter for the next 2500 years, would extoll, in the words of Plutarch (46-120 AD), "the union for life between a man and a woman for the delights of love and the getting of children". Only Europeans would denounce polygamy as a "wicked" and "treacherous" institution that threatened republican citizenship and political stability. … The ancient Greeks originated monogamy as they came to understand that the polygamous practices of aristocrats in charge of clans was a major obstacle to the inducement of internal solidarity within the new city-states they created. … The statesman Solon (630-560 BC) opposed the endless squabbles of these clannish aristocrats in the name of a new ideal of good order and harmony between men. … The Romans were also monogamous. While the Germanic tribes (such as the Franks, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Lombards) that took over Europe in the early Middle Ages practiced monogamy as the norm, polygamy existed among elite men. The Church dismantled these elite clans and kindreds by using its moral authority, threatening excommunication, expanding the incest taboos, and imposing numerous prohibitions during the course of many centuries, until by about 1200 it managed to dissolve not just Europe’s extended families but create in substitution a new pan-tribal Christian identity across much of Europe. Catholics understood that polygamy makes for tyrannical governments, despotism and barbarism, whereas monogamy makes for stable states and civilization.'

And this unique social and cultural history, observes Harvard Professor Joseph Henrich, is why Whites developed a very particular psychological inclination for trust, honesty, and fairness beyond their families and ethnic in-groups. Whereas, coming from his totally different physical, social and cultural history, and not sharing my essentially Western Christian priors, Mlambo JP didn't think twice about lying to me contemptuously and repeatedly in response to my three earnest entreatments to him as LASA Board chairman -- which I'd made assuming very mistakenly, at least in the beginning, that we were cut from basically the same moral cloth and shared the same basic cognitive machinery, and also that he was intelligent enough to grasp the abstract Western legal concept of a fiduciary duty such as he owed LASA as its chairman, and the meaning of his judicial oath to uphold the Constitution and the law -- to set to rights the massive corruption and illegality in his organisation that I'd run into and was pertinently calling to his attention in fine, documented detail. It explains why, once irreversibly committed in writing to his lies to me, Mlambo JP doubled down and continued lying confidently to every single higher authority to whom he was accountable: the Justice Minister, the parliamentary Justice Portfolio Committee, two successive Chief Justices, and the Labour Court headed by him at the time, in which he'd unexpectedly found himself an anxious and reluctant respondent at the sharp end of an application for leave to subpoena him for cross-examination on his lies in light of LASA's own records contradicting and refuting them.

Of course, all this social, moral, cultural and legal history of the ancients detailed above is Greek to Mlambo JP, which explains why he’s unable to behave like a civilised person, and is forever doomed to belong to ‘The Mimic Men’, as V.S. Naipaul titled his 1967 novel, being men (per Grok summary) adopting 'the manners, institutions, and ambitions of their former colonial rulers without the cultural depth or historical foundation to sustain them', and occupying and enjoying the institutional commons created by these former rulers with their supremely advanced civilization, without sharing any of the unique Western civic virtues that gave rise to it -- a unique civilization that is the very expression of these culturally specific values.

Hence his primitive, instinctive, impulsive, natural exploitation of his personal opportunities in the three legal institutions, the judiciary, the JSC, and LASA, in which he luckily found himself, not because of any exceptional legal skills as his judicial promotions suggest (quite the contrary, he has none), but thanks exclusively to the ruling party's so-called Employment Equity and Cadre Deployment policies, entailing a complete disregard for ordinary civilised Western meritocratic hiring principles, and translating in real terms to a political programme for racial replacement, racial minority exclusion and ultimately elimination by economic marginalization and financial strangulation, in pursuit of a raw Bantu supremacist, resource transfer and consumption agenda, instead of the colourblind future we were falsely and deceptively promised in the National Settlement of the early Nineties, which is to say, the lies we were sold in the standard bad faith on consistent display over the centuries of our interactions on this Continent, and which we gullibly believed in our characteristically trusting Western good natures, despite all precedent betrayals of our good faith, only to see reneged on down here as usual.

Our other vast ethnic differences across a whole range of neuro-cognitive spectrums, determining our very different temperaments, characters, and ethical dispositions collectively comprising our inherited inner forms, variously shaped by my ancestors' many thousands of years of unrelenting bitter struggle to survive the life-threatening, extremely icy climes of Northern Europe -- selecting, under this intense evolutionary pressure, for industry, creativity, abstract thought, frugality, accumulated resource husbandry and maintenance of resources, low littering, high impulse control, high emotional control, high affective empathy, high sense of consequence, foresight, forward thinking, long term planning, future temporal orientation, strong internalised moral conscience and personal responsibility, low reliance on external behavioural controls, high trust, low fraud, and high intelligence, versus his ancestors' easy living in their unchallenging, undemanding, sunny environment, not requiring any of these distinctive racial traits to live their mostly idyllic, uncomplicated, carefree nomadic pastoral lives -- explain why Mlambo JP, with his opportunistic, what-can-I get-away-with morality, felt no compunction at all about abusing his power as a senior civil servant employed by a modern state fashioned on a foreign, imported, and essentially culturally unfamiliar Western template to reward his babes for their juicy cuddles with top jobs in the public service, and to repeatedly place one of them on two successive Tribunals to corrupt and foul their decision-making in his own occult personal interests. To Mlambo JP it was only natural, whereas to my radically different, Western Christian worldview, entirely strange to him, such behaviour constitutes the basest corruption.

Like when the State Security Agency ('SSA') delivered over R20 million over the months in 2015-17 in bags of hard cash to then-Minister of State Security David Mahlobo at his house, counted out by him in his home-office, in the implementation of 'Project Justice' to bribe our New South African judges to political factional ends.

Acting SSA Director General Loyiso Jafta told the Zondo Commission on oath on 26 January 2021, 'We have very strong circumstantial evidence some of the money went into the hands of members, or a member, of the judiciary', and that 'Investigations are on-going' into this. Years later, the identities of these corrupt judges have yet to be revealed, and the JSC is illegally and unconstitutionally obstructing my PAIA request for specified records in this regard, being itself utterly corrupt, as shown by its fantastically dishonest disposal of my criminal case against Mlambo JP on multiple documented counts, which two top judges on the the JCC Appeal Committee had found upon a careful conspectus to have been well-made, supported by the evidence, and answerable.

And needless to say, in the New South Africa in which corruption is rife at the highest levels of state and nothing actually works (the Auditor General is another useless example), the Information Regulator, charged by statute with supervising PAIA compliance by organs of state, actually supports the JSC's patently illegal and unconstitutional suppression of these duly requested records, and has maliciously and dishonestly described my manifestly serious complaint to it about this as 'frivolous or is vexatious or is not made in good faith' as its justification for not intervening to do its job, namely to facilitate information transparency by public entities in our supposed democracy, as required of them by section 32(1)(a) of the Constitution. I don't know whether the 30 percenters in the office of Information Regulator also got the memo, as the Judge President of the Labour Appeal Court did, or got bribed by the SSA like those unnamed judges during Project Justice, since as these precedents show, in the New South Africa anything goes.

But don't go wasting your time, like I did, suing out of the High Court in the New South Africa for such illegally and unconstitutionally hidden records, because you if you sadly draw the short straw of an affirmative action judge to try your claim, you'll likely discover that constitutional information transparency, as a sophisticated Western legal concept, is entirely beyond his or her cognitive capacity to comprehend, much less apply.

Consider, for instance, this judgment on one of my several straightforward PAIA claims in light of this application I brought for leave to appeal it (granted), and please tell me honestly with tears in your eyes whether you disagree that the now-Judge President of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court Division who wrote it shouldn't rather be at home sitting nicely on her icansi laid out on the ubulongwe floor of her grass indlu, stirring the family's iphuthu with a stick over a fire, watching her husband's umqombothi brewing, getting up now and then to throw some ground corn to the izinkhukhu, and minding her abantwana don't fall into the river, in better conformity with her mental endowment.

Back in April 2015 at his interview by the JSC for the presidency of the Gauteng Division of the High Court, while still Judge President of the Labour- and Labour Appeal Courts, Mlambo JP pompously declaimed, 'I'm a new generation judge. I do not shy away from dirtying my hands in my judicial work.'

Actually, his very overdue 'six outstanding judgments' raised by the panel revealed just how 'shy' he was to do any 'judicial work' at all, dirty or otherwise. Ordinarily, such atrocious judicial indolence would have sunk his prospects, but Mlambo JP was the earmarked candidate and nothing was going to derail his selection and appointment. His mellifluous excuse that his 'exuberance of youth' had caused him to take on too many cases was an obvious, retarded, dog-ate-my-homework lie, seeing as he was a '52-year-old' at the time, but like a pig slurping down pile of offal the panel swallowed it whole without stopping to chew.

No one noticed that Mlambo JP had casually plagiarised the peculiar phrase 'youthful exuberance' from then-Public Protector Thuli Madonsela, who'd coined it a couple of months earlier to explain during an interview her audacity as a novice lawyer in taking on a certain heavy case at the start of her career -- stealing it from her in the manner of his fellow hunter-gatherers instinctively stopping their shiny new cars on the shoulder of the highway next to the broken-down commercial-goods delivery-truck and merrily looting it without a qualm, in the local custom that we see all the time here, as we drive past, shaking our heads at the basic hopelessness of the Rainbow Nation project, with its fundamentally different, ethnically baked-in, incompatible, and forever irreconcilable diverse cultural and ethical values.

True to his promise as a 'new generation judge' now heading the Gauteng Division, Mlambo JP didn't 'shy away' from 'dirtying' his 'hands' by illegally pulling a politically sensitive case from his court roll at the President's illegal request.

Nor did he shy away' from 'dirtying' his 'hands' by corrupting the 'judicial work' of a long-time colleague, his successor as head of the Labour- and Labour Appeal Courts, by slipping him a note importuning him to throw a case -- which criminal instrument, unfortunately for him, was left at the scene of the crime.

Nor, it turns out, does His Lordship 'shy away from' warming his 'hands' around the curves of any number of moaning comers under the sheets in consideration for big gigs organised for them in return.

This 'new generation judge' now heads the JCC, responsible, inter alia, for the true disposal of the just-mentioned judicial corruption complaint (my appeal just upheld against its dismissal by a seemingly alcoholic Deputy Judge President) -- a matter in which he'd himself corruptly suborned his fellow judge, the respondent in the complaint, to toss my case, which he had a direct interest in seeing fail.

The records show that Mlambo JP's judicial brother promptly obliged him -- prematurely, before all the papers were in and the case was ripe for decision; without regard to its merits (inter alia the trial judge's incontestibly fatal, radical, reversible error in misallocating the final burden of proof); and without the participation, let alone concurrence, of the other two judges, Davis and Sutherland JJA, fraudulently named in the dismissal order, both of whom were presiding in different courts in different parts of the country on the day the order dissembled the three of them sat together to consider and decide the thing.

Responsible also for enforcing the JSC's new Sex Code, published with a view to containing the notoriously widespread lechery of our New South African judges, since, as JSC member Tembeka Ngcutaitobi SC pointed out, ‘everyone in the JSC recognised that sexual harassment was an issue in the judiciary', echoing other commissioners 'who expressed concern ... how pervasive sexual harassment in the judiciary was' -- a touchy-feely issue that, let's face it, only hit the scene after those conservative White judges aged out and got replaced, I mean those guys appointed not for their swarthy looks to match the lumpen, but for their brilliant minds, deep knowledge of law, and long litigation experience back in the day when South Africa was still a serious country, before being liberated from the proper old ways.

Maya CJ herself knowingly insisted ‘there is a need for' this Sex Code to cool the ardour of our male judges in the New South Africa, frenzied like bellowing bulls by the whiff of perfume, 'a need for' these new rules about keeping their trousers up and their flies buttoned around the female court staff and also female attorneys and advocates who are 'aspiring judges', and 'a need for' this new legal regulation of rampant judicial members, now that the bench has been successfully decolonised and transformed and conforms to the traditional tribal behavioural norms of which our Deputy Chief Justice has been providing us with a protuberant nightly example.

With perfect impunity obviously, since this is the New South Africa in which a then-Judge President can tell a whole bunch of blatant criminal lies to our country's highest executive and oversight authorities to deceive and defraud them and pervert and defeat the special ministerial and parliamentary enquiries they've instituted, and get clean away with it, aided and abetted in his evasion of trial before a Tribunal -- which two distinctly honourable senior judges on the JCC Appeal Committee had recommended after seeing through all his dull lies, obvious even to an infant -- by the secret, anonymous majority vote of an utterly corrupt and nakedly partisan JSC, repeatedly defaming me behind my back (Ngcutaitobi SC leading the charge) and overtly taking his side during its conference to decide what to do with the Appeal Committee's recommendation (again Ngcutaitobi SC leading the pack), and claiming at the end, contra those two exceptionally honest, intelligent, diligent, unbiased Appeal Committee judges, that 'there is no prima facie evidence to substantiate the allegations' I'd made. So childishly dishonest, so contemptibly moronic, so very typical of the flagrant, rank, shameless, ubiquitous 'rampant corruption' in the New South Africa that then-American Ambassador-elect Brent Bozell noted at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 23 October 2025. (After which he was confirmed and sworn in; and he'll be arriving in Pretoria to take office imminently.)

Why Ngcutaitobi SC should have spoken against me with such virulent prejudice and acted so profoundly dishonestly as Mlambo JP's defence counsel, rather than as an impartial commissioner he'd falsely sworn to be, is easily explained. Assiduously laying the paving-stones of his career path to becoming Chief Justice one day (standing on his two genuinely hilarious, laugh-out-loud schoolboy comic books on the land question), he was completely dependent on Mlambo JP's good favour for appointments as an acting judge in his court and  was astute to preserve this at the conference by acting as his champion.

Also, his bristling racial hostility towards me as a White man (discussed below) and his instinctive racial solidarity with Mlambo JP as a fellow Black corresponds with a ton of robustly consistent research reports in the academic psychology and sociology literature finding strikingly pronounced out-group aversion and in-group preference among Blacks as compared to Whites, as evinced inter alia by jurymen bias, extremely disparate inter-racial violent crime rates, etc.

It must be said, however, that with his complete lack of integrity on display at the conference to decide what to do with the Appeal Committee's findings and recommendation against Mlambo JP, and in his perfect equanimity at seeing this disgusting criminal liar, this jumped-up legal dullard, this despicable moral degenerate, this abject civilizational invalid go unpunished, Ngcutaitobi SC demonstrated himself to be an eminently suitable candidate for future Chief Justice in the New South Africa, inasmuch as its barbarous, putrid mores, evident everywhere in our public administration, including in the judiciary and in the JSC, squarely match his own.

To his credit, then-JSC chairman Zondo CJ repeatedly insisted at the conference that the proceedings were being conducted grossly irregularly in breach of the audi alteram partem rule -- exposing them, he warned, to certain judicial review and to being set aside (I've got other unpleasant plans instead) -- but our then-Chief Justice got shouted down by a majority vote of 9 to 3 to deny me my most basic natural right to respond to Mlambo JP's hundreds of pages of new allegations and documents, so obviously irregularly and unlawfully slipped before the JSC without my knowledge at the time, instead of just his submissions (argument), which the JSC had invited on the merits of the Appeal Committee's ruling. After which, Justices Nkabinde and Makgoka's said decision was thrown into the lavatory.

The better to secure his career ambitions by voting with the mob he'd poisoned and led against me, Ngcutaitobi SC didn't just absolve his judicial patron, he positively exonerated him. Those two senior judges on the Appeal Committee must have been hallucinating as they wrote their 42-page survey and analysis of the mountain of documentary and other evidence I'd adduced in support of my four criminal charges against Mlambo JP; in finding that this real evidence didn't support and objectively contradicted his obviously untruthful response to my accusations; and in recommending that my criminal case against him on four counts, and his defence to it, be tried by a Tribunal, with cross-examination of the two of us under oath to test my charges against his lies, on pain of the penalty for perjury, which is jail. But no, reckoned our estimable Senior Counsel with the umlalepayipini hairdo, I'd presented 'no prima facie evidence' against Mlambo JP at all, I'd set up no answerable case against him whatsoever.

Just like when those nine Black jurors (and one Meztiso) acquitted their co-ethnic OJ Simpson (the two White female jurors initially held out) despite the overwhelming evidence that he'd murdered his White wife by stabbing her twelve times with his boot on her back, nearly severing her head from her body, and the whole of Black America jumped up clapping and cheering the verdict, Ngcutaitobi SC and his fellow gangsters' conduct in acquitting Mlambo JP, despite my documented stonewall case against him, serves as dismal reminder that we live in the New South Africa now, in which criminal corruption by big-time criminals in business suits with government jobs is not aberrant but completely normal (apparently according with ancient Tsonga and other Bantu cultural values concerning the rights of the mighty) and that modern Western state institutions established by such pretty papers as Western liberal constitutions imported from overseas, and statutes enacted by Western-style parliaments, cannot and do not function as intended down here, and are unable to hold these brazen criminals to account, being run by people without the necessary Western mindsets wired by such essential, but locally alien, foundational Graeco‑Roman principles as the rule of law, justice between men, subordination to higher principles instead of narrow self-interest, objectivity, impartiality, honour, duty, reason, truthfulness, moral courage, non-kin-fairness and even‑handed dealing both with in-groups and out-groups.

Value-free persons on the JSC like Mlambo JP's dependable shoeshine boy Ngcutaitobi SC, so conspicuously seething with the ressentiment of the parvenu from the lower orders, wantonly and malevolently smearing me as a 'racist' at the conference -- evidently knowing absolutely nothing of the history of my thoroughly unusual personal, social, musical, political, and professional life -- taking after that lying crook Mlambo JP, hysterically levelling the same deadly culumny to distract from my irrefragable, comprehensively vouched, criminal and other capital complaints against him.

And never mind the High Court's judgment in the Jankielson case in 2019, holding: 'It must be one of the biggest insults to accuse ... anyone ... in our diverse society of being racist or a white supremacist. People are sent to jail for making racist remarks. Racism is an extremely sensitive issue. ... There is no justification for the publication of untruths. The statement was published recklessly and with indifference as to whether it was true or false. ... Plaintiff is labelled and even stigmatised as a racist and white supremacist and it is highly probable that some people might have been incited to cause him and/or his family harm. We experience this on a regular basis on this country.' (The plaintiff scored R300 000 in damages.)

And after getting away with his crimes, assisted in his flight from justice by Ngcutaitobi SC and his eight other criminal accessories after the fact, conspiring with his accomplices at the conference like mobsters in an Italian restaurant, Mlambo JP was appointed by the President as Deputy Chief Justice, following a risibly rigged selection process: a perfect fit for the job, and an exemplar, nay, the very epitome in the flesh of all the revived, traditional, now dominant, it's-our-turn-to-eat ethos in the New South Africa that we see daily at every level of state, from the Presidency and Vice Presidency down to my local municipality.

Given what a decent, gentle, and pleasant woman Mandisa Maya CJ appears to be, this ruthless criminal 'thug' (as my Black silk colleague described him to me), will as Deputy Chief Justice practically be in charge of the South African judiciary now.

The final takeaway from it all is that you mustn't commit the dreadful cross-cultural faux pas in the New South Africa of insolently calling a challenge to our Deputy Chief Justice's infinite venality (if only from my Western Christian perspective), wrongly imagining that he understands the foundation of a Western constitutional order like ours, summed up in Jefferson's letter to Washington in 1784: 'the denial of every pre-eminence'. According to his own, very different, timeless, sun-baked, customary view of things, to complain of his grievous misconduct shows insufficient deference to him as a very important person, and amounts to harassment, speaking out of turn, acting unacceptably, and being rude, shameless, disrespectful, unbecoming, vulgar, confused, insulting, derogatory, defamatory, racist, and disruptive to his traditional tribal sense of order and decorum (I'm quoting some of his attacks over the years on odious 'people like' me, being 'the kind of person' I am). He'll warn you off breaching this dreadful taboo -- unchanged in his culture since its formation above the Equator thousands of years ago -- with his tribe's ancient proverb, 'Ku sola hosi, sola usukile': if you want to question the chief, you can just bugger off.

And if, culturally unacceptably defying his high authority, you don't back off retreating on your hands and knees, avoiding eye-contact, and instead you impudently persist with your annoying complaints about his crimes and other vile misbehaviour (if only from a Western Christian viewpoint), daring to stare him down, uncowed, not being one of his cringing suntanned homies, and not giving a damn what undeserved government job he's got, you can expect to be permanently neutralised -- by getting summarily sacked as a contract magistrate and blacklisted from future appointments (achieved); by getting banned from the courts as a litigant (the head-shot missed); and getting disbarred as a lawyer (in the pipe -- sicced on by Robin Mossop SC just before his appointment as a judge).

During a media briefing at the Judges Conference in early December 2023, Mlambo JP complained on television that this advocate had been harassing him for over a decade and had put up a website about him. Concerned at his July 2025 interview that I'm still on his case and locked onto him like an incoming Oreshnik missile, 'Mlambo took a particularly firm stance on the issue of the unacceptability of attacks on the judiciary. "Powerful people who criticise the courts, who impute corruption and other negative implications on the imputations of the judiciary [sic: again, his usual high-sounding, stupid word salad] are a threat to the rule of law" ... He said the DCJ should take up the mantle of supporting the Chief Justice in engaging with legal professionals and civil society and making them aware that "this type of wanton, unfounded criticism of the judiciary is a problem".'

In other words, if appointed DCJ, he'd try getting Maya CJ to join him on a propaganda offensive to take out  this 'problem' guy threatening the very legal foundation of the state by pointing to the scum risen to the top of the judiciary.

This is because with necklacing one's opponents having gone out of fashion to restore Ubuntu to 'the land of our forefathers and foremothers' which 'must return to our people without ... any payment of compensation' (as the President puts it -- 'our people' excluding 14th (fourteenth) generation Whites like me, whose forebears arriving in the mid-1600s built the country up from dust and bush, to which development the President's and Mlambo JP's ancestors contributed a round zero), the succeeding rage in the New South Africa nowadays has become the well-established traditional cultural practice of gunning down whistleblowers, investigators, detectives, auditors, lawyers, prosecutors, witnesses, police informants, and complainants in high-level corruption cases. Like me.

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