South Africa’s black Chief Justice berated the government and corporations for hiring white males to defend them in courts.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry luncheon, Mogoeng Mogoeng said: “There’s still a lot to be done to empower women, especially black women [in the judiciary].<\/p>\n
“But the big challenge is that whenever big business has a matter before our court they brief white male lawyers.<\/p>\n
“The same goes for the government: It briefs white males,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mogoeng urged businesses to support young black student lawyers at universities and called on white male lawyers, to stop paying lip service to transformation in the legal sector.<\/p>\n
Mogoeng, without irony, called on South Africa to follow the example of countries like South Korea and Singapore. They had succeeded, he said, due to good governance, unified purpose and a strong emphasis on education.<\/p>\n
Both countries are listed <\/a>among the worst in the world for black people.<\/p>\n “I cannot stress this too much, we need to embrace education aggressively,” Mogoeng said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa’s black Chief Justice berated the government and corporations for hiring white males to defend them in courts. Speaking at a Durban Chamber of Commerce and Industry luncheon, Mogoeng Mogoeng said: “There’s still a lot to be done to empower women, especially black women [in the judiciary]. “But the big challenge is that whenever … Continue reading “Chief Justice wants white males out”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":19432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[854,11940,156,144,157,2214,3442],"class_list":["post-19431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","tag-anti-white-rant","tag-blacks","tag-china","tag-racism","tag-singapore","tag-south-korea"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/korea-blackface-600x336.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19431"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19436,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions\/19436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}