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3 unusual facts about Pierre de Vos


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Constitutional expert Pierre de Vos has referred to Mogoeng as the most conservative member of the court, pointing to ambivalence over gay rights in Le Roux and Others v Dey and a "deferential" approach to the executive in The Citizen and Others v Robert McBride.

Pierre de Vos

He is the Chairperson of the Board of the Aids Legal Network, a non-governmental human rights organisation, and a board member of the Triangle Project, a non-profit LGBT advocacy organisation.

"This guy will be joining a group of gangsters who make (John) Hlophe their do-or-die issue. Whites want to entrench themselves in the last unelected branch of government - the judiciary," said Ngobeni.



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