Faizel Patel – 07/09/2020
Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke says his new book “All Rise: A Judicial Memoir” is written in very accessible language and not meant for lawyers, but rather for South Africans.
Moseneke’s name stands out as fighter for justice throughout his career, as he sat as arbitrator in the Life Esidimeni Commission of Inquiry and a man who has been steadfast in his belief in what is right and just in modern day South Africa,
Moseneke released his second book, and he spoke to Radio Islam about the publication on Monday.
“All Rise” covers his years on the bench, with particular focus on his 15-year term as a judge at SA’s Constitutional Court where he rose to the position of deputy chief justice.
As a member of the team who drafted the interim constitution, Moseneke was well placed to become one of the guardians of its final form.
Moseneke says “All Rise: A Judicial Memoir” is for the public.
“Institutions have been battered. It’s important to talk about one of those institutions that withstood a lot of that pillaring and attack on it and remains standing by an large. You still feel happy when say ‘well I’ll push this right up to the Constitutional Court. So it was important to write about this institution.”
Moseneke says South Africans took for granted that the desires, aims and promises to change the laws and society would happen at the snap of a finger.
He says after 1994, work, religious and youth organisations among others who were pushing for a just society demobilized.
“We all left it for the politicians and we thought they would do the magic and I think that is one of the fundamental mistakes that we did. For that reason very few people actually the political elite accountable.”
Published by Pan Macmillan, Justice Dikgang Moseneke’s second book, All Rise, follows his best-selling memoir, My Own Liberator (2016).
Listen to the interview with Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
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