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The integrity, legitimacy, credibility, and public confidence in the courts is dented almost daily. It is time for the chief justice to do something to redeem the image of the country s judiciary, writes
Omphemetse Sibanda.
What a month it has been for the judiciary.
First, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng hit back with a razor-sharp 39-page appeal against a Judicial Service Commission ruling by retired Deputy President Phineas Mojapelo, in which he was ordered to apologise and retract his public comments on SA s foreign policy on Israel.
The flaming character of the chief justice stood forth, on many points, controversially and interestingly as he lashed out at Mojapelo.