Mogoeng bids farewell to Justice Edwin Cameron as he retires
20 August 2019
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has described Justice Edwin Cameron as "brave and bold", saying that when HIV had a stigma, he stood up and declared openly that his status was positive.
"He knew the attitude of South Africans at the time because nobody had stepped out and prepared them that this is a condition like any other that requires medical attention," he said.
Cameron contracted the virus in the late 1980s and revealed that he was HIV-positive in 1999.
Mogoeng said Cameron could afford antiretrovirals and therefore could have chosen to "mind his own business and care less about others. But not Edwin Cameron. He is not that type," he said.