Retired chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says running for president ‘is a calling on my life’

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In one of the centre’s examples the appeal case of State vs Serekwane, in the former Bophuthatswana High Court in 2005, Mogoeng reduced from five years’ to three years’ imprisonment the sentence of a man who had attempted to rape a seven-year-old girl. Among the factors he considered in reducing the sentence were that the accused was 30 years old and a first-time offender, married with two children and a soldier who earned R1 800 a month. He did not explain the relevance of these factors.

Mogoeng did some decent things in preventing ANC abuses around Nkandla and such. By relative South African standards he's okay in that he didn't actively corrupt the Constitutional Court. But by absolute standards, he's crap.
 

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Mogoeng did some decent things in preventing ANC abuses around Nkandla and such. By relative South African standards he's okay in that he didn't actively corrupt the Constitutional Court. But by absolute standards, he's crap.
Yup and beyond that he is too religious and would want to bring that to bear if he got into a position of political power... And we need more separation of church and state, not less.
 

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Yup and beyond that he is too religious and would want to bring that to bear if he got into a position of political power... And we need more separation of church and state, not less.
He will have to abide by the constitution regardless of his religious beliefs.
 

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He just has to be better than JZ and CR then we'll say God's choice didn't turn out that bad.
 

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He will have to abide by the constitution regardless of his religious beliefs.
I can obey the constitution whilst still bend it to suit my religion and force it down people's throats...

No bloody thank you from my end.
 
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