Durban attorney ready for JSC appointment

KWAZULU-NATAL attorney Sifiso Msomi said yesterday he was ready to take up the nomination made by President Jacob Zuma for him to serve on the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

“I am willing to serve and I am available to serve,” Msomi said.

Msomi, with advocate Thandi Norman, SC, and advocate Thabani Masuku, were named as the members Zuma was considering.

Msomi, a partner at Durban-based Shepstone & Wylie, is a member of the Black Lawyers Association and has previously served as it deputy chairman.

He holds law degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Norman, one of the first black female senior advocates, was chairperson of the commission that probed the deaths and injuries to aspirant traffic officers in KwaZulu-Natal in 2012. She was also evidence leader in the Pillay Commission that probed corruption in the Eastern Cape in 2005 and the Goldstone Commission that investigated taxi violence in the Eastern Cape in 1995.

Masuku, who is the former head of Advocates for Transformation, is well known for championing transformation in the judiciary.

He was evidence leader in the Claasen inquiry probing the fitness to hold office of national police commissioner Riah Phiyega.