The human rights organization, #Africa4Palestine, have submitted an official complaint to South Africa’s Judicial Services Commission (JSC) against the Chief Justice, the Honorable Mogoeng Mogoeng, for his Israeli utterances.

The complaint was drafted by a senior legal team including Advocate Ben Winks, Advocate Sheldon Magardie, Attorney Yasin Bham as well as a Senior Counsel from the Johannesburg Bar. Click here to download the full submission.

Last week Mogeng came under fire for his comments in support of the Israeli regime from political parties including the ANC and EFF, churches and church organizations, the MJC and Jamiat, Jewish groups (click here), judicial bodies (click here), legal experts (click here), intellectuals, trade unions, commentators, civil society organizations and others .

Judge Mogoeng has, unfortunately, continued to publicly speak on the matter but refuses to apologise. He has said: “Even if 50 million people can march every day for the next 10 years, for me to retract and apologise for what I said — I will not do it…There will, therefore, be no retraction. There is nothing to retract. There will be no apology … I will not apologise for anything. There is nothing to apologise for. There is nothing to retract…I will not.”

Mogoeng has also started, bizarrely, to accuse people of “lies”, of plotting “to destroy” him, “insulting” him and wanting to “kill” him. We deny any of the Chief Justice’s accusations and insist, as our submission makes clear, that he is in violation of the JSC code of conduct. In addition, he conflates the Biblical Land of Israel with the Modern State of Israel created in 1948. And, finally, he disregards Israel’s well documented violations of international law.

MULTI-PARTY PRESS CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE