The South African ad hoc judge is former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke...

The court ruling came despite an independent finding made by former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke that the elections should be delayed to a date not later than February next year because of the effects of Covid-19 restrictions...

Adding to factional tensions within the governing African National Congress (ANC) former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke advised in a report to Ramaphosa that local government elections due to be held on 27 October should be postponed until the end of February next year...

31 July: Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke is to report on the viability of local government elections on 27 October...

The report on their viability by former deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke is due at the end of July...

Further uncertainty about timelines came with the appointment by the Independent Electoral Commission last week of former deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke to investigate the viability of free and fair local elections in October given the pandemic...

An application for Hlophe's suspension was brought to the Constitutional Court in 2008 but Hlophe managed to filibuster with serial delays and counter-claims against the highly respected then Chief Justice Pius Langa and then Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke as well as Nkabinde and Jafta...

Mogoeng's appointment prompted controversy because respected Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke had been overlooked for a second time by Zuma and other Constitutional Court judges had turned down approaches in deference to Moseneke (AC Vol 50 No 17 So far so Zuma)...

Judge Sandile Ngcobo is the new Chief Justice; the opposition had wanted the Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke who had criticised Zuma and the ANC...