Calls for ‘racist’ judge to be sacked

[caption id="attachment_146075" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Pretoria High Court Judge Mabel Jansen is in hot water over her racist social media comments.
Picture: Mabel Jansen via Facebook[/caption]

Judicial Service Commission denies receiving complaints about remarks

CALLS for the resignation or dismissal of a Pretoria High Court judge are mounting, with the Black Lawyers’ Association calling for all of Judge Mabel Jansen’s cases to be reviewed. The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has also called for Jansen to be investigated following comments on “black rape culture”.

The woman who outed Jansen said she had taken to social media out of frustration after a year of inaction from the Judicial Service Commission – the body tasked with investigating the conduct of judges.

“People ask why did I share it a year later,” filmmaker Gillian Schutte said. “It is because there is still a racist judge [on the bench], a year later.

“How do we know that she is impartial enough to preside over the cases she does, if these are her views on blackness.

“We are not friends. I blocked [Jansen] a year ago after the comments were made.”

Jansen made the comments in a private conversation with Schutte.

Schutte also asked why the incident of a waitress who was bullied by Rhodes Must Fall activist Ntokozo Qwabe could create more public outrage than these “toxic, destructive and frankly, illegal utterances”.

On Sunday, Schutte exposed public comments made on Facebook last year.

Jansen had sent Schutte a series of private messages to explain her comments, which included:

“99% of criminal cases I hear is of black fathers-uncles-brothers raping children as young as five years old. Is this part of your culture?

“Want to read my files: rape, rape rape rape rape rape of minors by black family members. It is never ending.

“And by the way – I raised two black orphans when it was not fashionable to do so. I am not a racist. Just shell shocked.”