From the Transkei bar to the Constitutional Court: the path of Mbuyiseli Madlanga

The Judicial Service Commission questioned him on his 1998 judgment in Bangindawo v Head of the Nyanda Regional Authority, in which he had held controversially that there was "no reason whatsoever for the imposition of the western conception of the notions of judicial impartiality and independence in the African customary law setting".