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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - A former shirt factory worker was handed the chief justice's robes Friday at a ceremony marking the appointment of the first black South African to head a court system assailed by allegations of racism.
President Thabo Mbeki, addressing a special Parliament session to welcome Pius Langa, said the need for transformation persists in a court system still dominated by white men more than a decade after apartheid's demise.
"I believe that the new leaders of our judiciary will help us successfully to respond to these challenges," Mbeki said.
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