Gayaat Salie-Hlophe

Gayaat Salie-Hlophe (born Gayaat Salie, 13 February 1974; also known as Gayaat Salie Da Silva) is a South African judge of the Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa. She was appointed permanently in January 2015 after nearly 17 years as a practising attorney and has also acted in the Supreme Court of Appeal. Quotes “For now, it must be said that the averments against me are palpably untruthful, at best can be called eloquently stated gossip, designed and orchestrated to ridicule me in the course of pursuing an agenda of destruction.” Politicsweb (response to allegations by Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath, January 2020) “She had expressed to me that I should drop the ‘Hlophe’ to my double barrel surname and that should I not choose to exit the marriage ‘others’ will wonder why I am married to ‘an old black man’. We raise a family together, we have brought our cultures and communities together and we enjoy a union of mutual respect, understanding and intend growing old together. I was shocked that she would encourage me to leave my husband, she would try to make me disillusioned in the marriage and that as his deputy and purported as my friend she could consider this appropriate.” Mail & Guardian “Bizarrely and quite frankly humorously, Goliath makes malicious reports on my private life launched like a scud missile to injure me, my family, my elders and my community in an attempt to destroy me and advance her career. It is rather apparent that I am the proverbial ‘collateral damage’ in an attack targeted against the Judge President.” Politicsweb “I do not allocate cases to my colleagues, I do not appoint or terminate acting appointments as that falls within the purview of the minister of justice, nor do I recommend candidates for acting appointments to the judge president … Not a single judge had to date acted upon my recommendation or was ever proposed by me.” Mail & Guardian External links Category:South African women Category:South African judges Category:Women judges Category:1974 births Category:Living people