[1] Between July 1997 and June 1998, Salie Da Silva served her articles of clerkship at the firm of E. Moosa, Waglay and Petersen Attorneys in Athlone.
[1] In October 2014, the Judicial Service Commission shortlisted and interviewed Salie-Hlophe as a candidate for possible permanent appointment to one of two vacancies in the Western Cape High Court.
According to Goliath, Salie-Da Silva "disclosed certain information — which I elect not to set out herein... [and] asked me to take her to hospital and explained in graphic detail what had transpired at Hlophe JP's house".
After the complaint was lodged, Hlophe and Salie Da Silva responded through their lawyer, Barnabas Xulu, who dismissed Goliath's allegations as baseless rumour-mongering.
[10] However, a week later, Salie Da Silva published a lengthy and scathing response in which she accused Goliath of lying in order to undermine her and oust Hlophe.
[18] To many of the legal practitioners surprise, Dambuza and the committee also recommended that there should be further investigation of the 2017 domestic incident, this time widened to include the Hlophe couple's allegations of misconduct against Goliath.
[22] In the same week, the couple's eldest daughter, then estranged from Salie-Hlophe, told several media publications that she intended to sue her mother for maintenance in order to fund her studies at the University of Cape Town.
[24][23] Salie-Hlophe remarried to John Hlophe, the Judge President of the Western Cape High Court, in April 2015, but they announced in January 2023 that they had recently divorced amicably.
[25] Salie-Hlophe married her third husband, Portuguese businessman Mauro Nunes Mendes Da Silva, on 3 December 2023 in a nikah held at the Casa Labia in Muizenberg.