Abramjee ‘has brought judiciary into disrepute’
SELF-proclaimed legal expert, Ismail Abramjee, is a criminal who should be brought to book for bringing the judiciary into disrepute.
These were the sentiments of Black Land First (BLF) leader Andile Mngxitama and spokesperson for the Jacob Zuma Foundation Mzwanele Manyi. Speaking to The Star Manyi said: “Ismail Abramjee must be brought to book and anyone found to have been involved in the recent SMS leak must be thoroughly investigated and if found guilty instituted with an impeachment process.
“We as the foundation are perturbed and find his conduct to be very offensive to the idea of a constitutional democracy. This debacle has single-handedly put a mark on the credibility of our judiciary as it means that this might not have been the first such incident. If that is true, it means the country has gone to the dogs and that our judges are involved in other things other than issues of justice,” Manyi said.
“He is a criminal. We support what the Public Protector (Busisiwe Mkwhebane) has done. Her course of action is very necessary. We urge the NPA to act swiftly and impartially in bringing this criminal to book. We also call for a full-on commission of inquiry as this clearly tells us that the judiciary is captured,” Mngxitama said.
He further stated that the judiciary continues to be the bulldog of White Monopoly Capital with many of its decisions being anti poor and pro white.
”There’s a clear collusion between the judiciary, WMC and civil society as they conspire to silence and criminalise poor people.”
This reaction comes after the public protector instituted criminal charges against Abramjee at the Brooklyn police station on Thursday.
The public protector is calling for Abramjee to be investigated for contempt of court, perjury, corruption and defeating the ends of justice. Abramjee is accused of sending an SMS to advocate Andrew Breitenbach, the lead senior counsel for Parliament and Speaker of the National Assembly.
The SMS revealed a court verdict before it was formally announced by the judges of the Constitutional Court.
In a recent statement, the African Transformation Movement (ATM) said it was alarmed and supported an investigation into the matter involving the leaked SMS.
“These news are very disturbing and not assisting in the building the credibility of the judiciary instead the assertion of a captured judiciary is entrenched,” the statement read.
The Star contacted Abramjee who said he was not willing to comment further as the paper had already written about him. “Read me the last paragraph of the article and tell me what it says,” he said.