South Africa’s former chief justice on Thursday apologised for comments he made in 2020 pledging support for Israel in the pro-Palestine country. The apology came nearly a year after Mogoeng Mogoeng, who is a devout Christian, was ordered to apologise for misconduct by getting entangled in political controversy, “criticising and proposing changes to the official policy of the South African Government towards Israel”. At the time of the offence in June 2020, he told an online conference organised by the Jerusalem Post, that South Africa deprived itself of “a wonderful opportunity of being a gam…