SACP humbly calls upon Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to comply with the Judicial Conduct Committee’s decision
The South African Communist Party (SACP) calls upon Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to comply with the decision reached by the Judicial Conduct Committee, to humble himself, and unreservedly apologise for and retract the utterances he made on 23 June 2020 and the subsequent remarks he made intransigently reaffirming those utterances.
By complying with the decision, Chief Justice Mogoeng will help restore public trust and respect for the judiciary, with the knowledge that no one including the head of the judiciary is above the law.
The SACP further reiterates its call for an end to the occupation of Palestinian land by the Zionist Israeli regime, and its support for a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 borders with a viable Palestinian state. All justice and peace-loving people across the world should intensify their strong condemnation of the occupation and the illegal construction of Israeli settlements on the occupied Palestinian land.
Chief Justice Mogoeng expressed support for Israel in a context conflating the Biblical Israel and the latter-day typically apartheid Israel which occupies Palestinian land and unleashes varying forms of apartheid segregation, atrocities, and other human rights violations against the Palestinian people.
The Chief Justice made the utterances during his participation in what many people who stand on the side of justice across the world saw as an unconscionable propaganda campaign activity to clean up the image of the oppressive Israeli regime.