12 June 2014
Chief justice Mogoeng. (Madelene Cronjé)
<p>By provoking debate on his religion's relation to the law Mogoeng opens
himself - and, by extension, his office - to criticism, debate and
engagement.</p><p>To place ourselves “in humble submission to Almighty God” or not? This
question faced the drafters of the preamble to South Africa’s
Constitution during negotiations in the anteroom of its birth. Struggle
hero and later Constitutional Court justice Albie Sachs recalls the
incident in a memoir as yet another juncture of contentious debate
during the negotiations process.
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Mail & Guardian
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