--- title: "1 Jeremy Gordin Quotes - Famous Journalist" description: "South African journalist... | Jeremy Gordin was a South African journalist, newspaper editor, biographer, and poet. He worked in senior editorial roles ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b062/author-jeremy-gordin-247530.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Jeremy Gordin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b062/author-jeremy-gordin-247530.jpg) # Jeremy Gordin (1952–2023) Journalist **1** quotes in **17** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Jeremy Gordin was a journalist. ## Quick Facts About Jeremy Gordin Born January 1, 1952 Died March 31, 2023 Profession Journalist ## About Jeremy Gordin South African journalist... \| Jeremy Gordin was a South African journalist, newspaper editor, biographer, and poet. He worked in senior editorial roles for major South African publications, including the Sunday Independent, The Star, and Sunday Tribune. He was also the author of a bestselling biography on former South African Pr ## Quotes by Jeremy Gordin > [“Here was a temporary solution. Parole would get Mofokeng and Mokoena out of jail as quickly as possible. Other details could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-gordin/here-was-a-temporary-solution-parole-would-get-mofokeng-and-mokoena/) [Jeremy Gordin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-gordin/) [2010](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-2010-587/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef8/jeremy-gordin-182517_2010_here-was-a-temporary-solution-parole-wou_939080.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-gordin/#itemlist", "name": "Jeremy Gordin Quotes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Here was a temporary solution. Parole would get Mofokeng and Mokoena out of jail as quickly as possible. Other details could be sorted out later. I accompanied Nyambi to Kroonstad jail at the end of October and remember that as he told Mofokeng and Mokoena the news—that they would be home for Christmas—smiles slowly but surely transformed the sombre, cautious expressions on their faces. Big problem: it was discovered in December, a full two months after the judgment was made, that the court order does not mention the NCCS at all. Consequently, the NCCS interpreted the court's order as having removed the NCCS's jurisdiction to deal with any \"lifers\" sentenced pre-1994. The members of the NCCS packed their briefcases and went home. No one knows why the judgment didn't mention the NCCS; maybe the judge who wrote it, Justice Bess Nkabinde, simply didn't know how the parole system operates; but eight of her fellow judges, the best in the land, found with her. The Mofokeng and Mokoena families, who are from 'the poorest of the poor', as the ANC likes to say, are distraught. 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