Following his participation in a webinar hosted by the Jerusalem Post this week, several bodies have come out in criticism of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng's comments, with one even considering laying a complaint with the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).
"Africa4Palestine is to lay a complaint with South Africa's Judicial Service Commission against the recent utterances made by the South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in support of the Israeli Apartheid regime.
"The chief justice, having participated in such an overtly political event, hosted by the Jerusalem Post and the chief rabbi, when this matter is in front of his court, is considered improper at worst or highly questionable in the very least," Magama added.
The council of Muslim theologians, Jamiatul Ulama, said Mogoeng's apparent partiality towards Israel calls into question the chief justice's commitment to South Africa's foreign policy, "which is derived from the nation's obligations as a signatory to the conventions and legal instruments that have pronounced the illegitimacy of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories".
"We call upon Chief Justice Mogoeng to walk back his remarks and instead speak against the discrimination and oppression of the Palestinian people, to whom we owe solidarity for the dehumanising injustices and excesses they endure every day for over seven decades," secretary-general Ebrahim Bham said in a statement on Friday.
