Watch Justice Dikgang Moseneke discussing his second book, All Rise: A Judicial Memoir. This follows his bestselling memoir, My Own Liberator (2016).
All Rise covers his years on the bench, with particular focus on his 15-year term as a judge at South Africa’s Constitutional Court where he rose to the position of Deputy Chief Justice. As a member of the team that drafted the interim Constitution, Justice Moseneke was well placed to become one of the guardians of its final form. His insights into the Constitutional Court’s structures, the personalities peopling it, the values it embodies, the human dramas that shook it and the cases that were brought to it, make for compelling reading. The book includes his early career, his tenure with Judge Chaskalson as the Chief Justice, the appointment of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, the Hlophe matter and Justice Moseneke’s experience as the arbitrator in the Life Esidimeni Commission of Inquiry.
All Rise offers a unique, insider’s view of how the judicial system operates at its best and how it responds when it is under fire. With this new memoir Justice Moseneke hopes to spark conversations around the current state of the South African judiciary.
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