No one is undermining your right to religious views, Chief Justice 08 March 2021 - 09:40
In his book All Rise: A Judicial Memoir, former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke tells an awkward anecdote about chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. It was shortly after Mogoeng was appointed to lead the judiciary. Justices of the Constitutional Court, including Moseneke, were still trying to establish rapport with the new head of the court.
Moseneke writes that as was standard practice, lunches in the judges’ common room were safe spaces of casual conversation, even banter about topics of shared interests. Conversations about weekend sport were seemingly a favourite. But there were no-go areas sex, politics and religion. Until one day, when justice Zak Yacoob had something to say about how Mogoeng usually signed off his e-mails with “God bless you” .
By Sibusiso Mkize These holidays we’ve recommended three books you can sit back and read while you drink your coffee or sip your festive season cocktails. Picture: iStock
As fundamental as reading can be, it can also be therapeutic. 2020 has offered an array of best selling books from Jackie Phamotse’s Bare 3: Ego book to All Rise: A Judicial Memoir by Dikgang Moseneke these three books should surely be in anyone’s Christmas stocking.
Promised Land By Barrack Obama
Coined of the greatest president of our time by USA Today, The 44th President of the USA writes a memoir which gives great insight about his first term as president. This book, the former president details the behind the scenes that the world did not know about.