Trevor Manuel's remark on the judge in poor taste as well as injudicious

Former finance minister Trevor Manuel needs to take steps to repair the damage caused by his remark on Judge Brian Mashlle, right, on our understanding of the role of the judiciary. /James Oatway

Let me start with a disclaimer: Judge Brian Mashile is my brother and I have known former finance minister Trevor Manuel since the days of the United Democratic Front as a fellow activist in the 1980s. I hold both men in high esteem. Mashile is a humble and dispassionate person, a stickler for fairness, logic and rationality and, above all, a conscientious jurist.

His rise from the bottom rung of apartheid's socially constructed ladder as a black and visually impaired person to the bench speaks volumes of the tenacity of the human spirit and the nobility of the anti-apartheid Struggle's exhortation for the recognition and affirmation of the talent of all our people, black and white.

Manuel is a renowned activist. His consciousness spurred him to battle against apartheid and, as minister, he shamed the stereotype of black incompetence after succeeding Chris Liebenberg as finance minister in April 1996.

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