Gillian Benson, an advocate, says she will not apologise for expressing her own views and will continue to do so.
reported on Sunday that she was due to resume her stint as an acting judge on June 8. After her Facebook post about “Cyril and his goons”, in an apparent criticism of the country's lockdown measures, however, Gauteng judge president Dunstan Mlambo had “immediately discussed the matter with her, and both agreed it will be in the best interest of all concerned to have her acting appointment revoked”.
“I have since apologised for that. In the instant of posting that comment I was hugely frustrated and emotionally distraught, and like many people do, I reacted. “The choice of adjectives and nouns I chose may have been unfortunate, but when an irrational regulation with no basis whatsoever, and clearly with no thought as to the best interests of parents and children, hinders my contact with my own child, I will remain upset and deeply so.”Benson said her last stint as an acting judge was in February this year.
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