LETTER: Chief justice’s mumbo jumbo
Mogoeng Mogoeng uses smokescreen to hide the fact that he has not done the job he is paid to do
Jonathan Schrire’s letter exposes the hypocrisy and cowardice of chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng on the subject of classifying incitement as a crime (“English as she should not be spoke (../letters/2020-12-02-letter-english-as-she-should-not-be-spoke/)”, December 3).
The dictionary meaning of the word incitement is the action of provoking unlawful behaviour or urging someone to behave unlawfully. Based on this definition the chief justice would only have to ask two questions to determine the guilt of the accused. Was there provocation, and if there was, was the provocation to do something illegal or unlawful?..
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