Stalingrad has fallen: After 15 years and 14 court cases, 91% of MPs vote for Hlophe’s removal

It's taken 15 years of disrupted Judicial Service Commission (JSC) proceedings and 14 increasingly desperate court cases – but, after 91% of MPs in the National Assembly voted in favour of his removal, Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe has been removed from the Bench. 

The Constitution required two-thirds of MPs to vote in favour of Hlophe's removal for the National Assembly to recommend to President Cyril Ramaphosa that he be stripped of his position on the Bench and his judicial salary for life (which was R192 000 a month).