Mogoeng: 'Confront racism'
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says South Africans need to confront racism to move forward as a country.
Mogoeng delivered this year's Chief Albert Luthuli Annual Memorial Lecture at UKZN yesterday. He looked at what needs to be done to secure a future where there's peace and prosperity for all.
He pointed to the fact that 24 years into South Africa's democracy, the divide persists.
“Why is it that young white compatriots who at the dawn of democracy were not big players in the economy, now they are big players? And seasoned economists or entrepreneurs who were excluded, are still out there in the cold,” Mogoeng says.
The Chief Justice said we need to address the issue without being hostile to one another,
“There is subconscious racism that keeps them out and we have got to confront that. We need intellectuals to pour out their intellectual gifts with a view to finding a solution to this challenge”.