Why is Fraser so concerned with Zondo?

THE latest tirade regarding former prisons boss Arthur Fraser claims that Deputy Chief Justice Zondo “is unfit” to hold the post of chief justice.

This is based on him not being given a chance to make representations at the Zondo Commission. The joke is, since when does Arthur Fraser think he is so important to sway a pending judicial appointment based on his sentiment or ill-treatment?

In fact, even if Deputy Chief Justice Zondo was not in the running, based on this it becomes imperative that DCJ Zondo is given the post as it would now seem a bias against him.

I can imagine if Fraser was an “Indian” how the anti-Indian group would have howled at an indian trying to block a rural African’s appointment.

I wonder what the RET lobby will have to say about Fraser blocking the advancement of an African, more so from KZN. Fraser is a civil servant pensioner, and how does his sentiment influence a pending judicial appointment? Senility catches up fast, it seems.

Arthur Fraser had a bumpy career and his track record regarding, the latest being when he overruled the Prisons Medical Parole Board regarding a prisoner and gave this prisoner a medical parole. DCJ Zondo has had an exemplary career, and his super humble beginnings from Ixopo where he went to a shopkeeper (out of the blue) to borrow and REPAY a “family” loan upon earning a salary speaks volumes for his business dealings.

The commission is not a criminal or civil trial, and the report is only a recommendation. The majority of judicial commissions, despite the costs, end up collecting dust and are forgotten.

As Thatcher said “the die is cast” upon Mandela’s release. Why is Arthur Fraser so concerned about DCJ Zondo taking the the office of chief justice when the report has not been published, no adverse recommendations were or have been made against him yet?

The problem will be the report, and not DCJ Zondo. In the words of De Klerk “play the ball and not the man”.

Fraser’s letter is baseless and without merit. It’s more like during the TRC, an apartheid-era police officer attacking Archbishop Desmond Tutu before the TRC report was even released.

Fraser should wait for the report from the commission, read it and then decide which way to go regarding the report, and not DCJ Zondo. MUHAMMAD OMAR | Durban North