Judge Makhubele wraps up testimony in protracted misconduct hearing.

 The end of Gauteng High Court Judge Tintswalo Makhubele’s Judicial Conduct Tribunal appears to be within sight, with the embattled judge having finally finished her testimony.

Makhubele is accused of undermining the independence of the judiciary by occupying the positions of judge and chair of the interim Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa board at the same time, and of meddling in the parastatal’s legal affairs during her time there.

In 2020, the complaint against her was referred to a Judicial Conduct Tribunal and last February that tribunal finally got under way.

It’s been slow going since then but it now looks like we’re finally in the home stretch.