The Lord's Chief Justice
Mogoeng Mogoeng, South Africa’s chief justice from 2011 to 2021, is midwifing the conservative turn in South Africa’s public life. From retirement, he may also eye public office.
On 31 October 2021, the Sunday Times reported that former Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng had been contemplating a run for public office, “if God wants him to.” Coincidentally, I had been working on a retrospective essay for Africa is a Country on Mogoeng, and it was published today. Read here: