Hlophe had also boasted to Justice Bess Nkabinde about obtaining a list of people implicated in the multi-billion dollar government arms deal from the National Intelligence Agency, she said.

?He [Hlophe] went on to explain that? there is no case against Mr [Jacob] Zuma,? Nkabinde testified before the JSC in Johannesburg.

?He [Hlophe] said there was a list containing names of people who were also implicated in the arms deal, he had obtained the list from the National Intelligence Agency and he said something to the effect that some of the people who appeared on the list were going to lose their jobs when Mr [Jacob] Zuma becomes president,? said Nkabinde.

The JSC is investigating a complaint of judicial misconduct against Hlophe, who allegedly tried to influence Nkabinde and Acting Justice Chris Jafta in a case involving the fraud and corruption charges against ruling party leader Zuma, who was still facing prosecution at that stage.

Nkabinde said Hlophe had contacted her telephonically and asked to see her to discuss the issue of privilege, a key matter under consideration in the Zuma judgment that the Constitutional Court was working on.

About three weeks before the meeting with Hlophe, Nkabinde had written a note on privilege to her colleagues.

?I wondered whether? possibly our work was under surveillance? this crossed my mind,? said Nkabinde, adding that a colleague at the court had recently lost confidential information on her computer.

When she met Hlophe, he told her that Zuma was being persecuted.

Nkabinde, who at that time had been warned by Jafta that Hlophe might want to discuss the pending Zuma matter, said to the Judge President that she was not in a position to discuss the case with him.