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African male, 61 years of age.

CURRENT POSITION

Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa and currently the Acting Chief Justice.

QUALIFICATIONS

• • B. Iuris (UZ); LLB (UKZN); LLM (cum laude) (Labour Law) (UNISA); LLM (with specialisation in commercial law)(UNISA); LLM (Patent Law) (UNISA).

PREVIOUS JUDICIAL POSITIONS:

• • Judge, Labour Court, 01 November 1997 – August 1999;
  • Judge, Gauteng Division, Pretoria, April 1999;
  • Judge President of the Labour Appeal Court and Labour Court May 2000 – April 2010;
  • Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court, November 2011 – May 2012;
  • Justice of the Constitutional Court, 01 September 2012;
  • Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, 01 June 2017;
  • Acting Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, 01-30 November 2017, 01 July 2021 to date.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD

• • • Research Fellow at the Legal Resources Centre, Durban, 1984 – February 1985;
    • Articled Clerk under Mrs Victoria Mxenge at Mxenge, Ngxingweni and Shezi in Durban, March 1985 – August 1986;Articled Clerk at Mthembu & Co, Durban, Aug/Sep 1985 – August 1986;
    • Articled of Clerk at Chennels Albertyn under Mr Chris Albertyn, September 1986 – April 1988;
    • Clerk at Mathe & Co, May 1988—May 1989;
    • Attorney and partner at Mathe & Co. name of the firm changed to Mathe and Zondo Incorporated, May 1989;
    • Member of a Committee of the Goldstone Commission which investigated political violence that occurred in certain mines in Welkom arising out of VAT stay-aways; and Member of a Committee of the Goldstone Commission which investigated political violence in the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal, 1991 – 1992;
    • Member of a Ministerial Committee appointed by the then Minister of Labour, Mr Tito Mboweni, to draft a Labour Relations Bill for the democratic South Africa; Aug 1994 – March 1995;
    • First Chairperson of the Governing Body of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), 1995/1996 – early 1997.

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS / EXTRA-JUDICIAL WORK

• • Chairperson of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State, January 2018 – date;
  • Acting Chairperson of the Judicial Conduct Committee of the Judicial Service Commission, June 2017 – date;
  • Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the South African Judicial Education Institute (SAJEI) Council, 2018 to present;
  • Member of the SAJEI Council and presently Acting Chairperson of the SAJEI Council, 2018 to present.

African male, 59 years of age

CURRENT POSITION

Justice of the Constitutional Court, 01 August 2013 to date.

QUALIFICATIONS

• • B Juris Degree (University of Transkei); LLB (Rhodes University); LLM (cum laude) (University of Notre Dame, United of States of America); Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree (honoris causa) (Walter Sisulu University)

PREVIOUS JUDICIAL POSITIONS:

• • Judge, Eastern Cape Division of the High Court, Mthatha (Transkei Division)
  • Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, December 1998 – May 1999;
  • Acting Judge President, Transkei Division of the High Court, June 1999 – August 2000;
  • Judge of the Competition Appeal Court, 1999 – 2000;
  • Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court, August 2000 – May 2001;
  • Justice Madlanga resigned as Judge in 2001;

PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD

• • Part-time law lecturer at the University of Transkei, 1987;
  • Full-time law lecturer, University of Transkei, 1988 – 1989;
  • Practising as an Advocate in the Eastern Cape, Mthatha 1991 – 1996;
  • Conferred as Senior Counsel, 2001;
  • Member of the Competition Tribunal, 2003 – 2012;
  • Deputy Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal, 2009 – 2012.

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS / EXTRA-JUDICIAL WORK

• • Appointed by the Minister of Finance at the time, as the Chairperson of the Exchange Control and Income Tax Amnesty Unit, 2003 – 2008;
  • Chairperson of the Transkei Society of Advocates (now Mthatha Society of Advocates), 2005 – 2007;
  • Member of the Judicial Service Commission, 2010 – 2012;
  • Chief Evidence Leader of the “Marikana Commission of Enquiry”, 2012 to 2013;
  • Inaugural editor-in-chief of the South African Judicial Education Journal, a journal published under the auspices of the South African Judicial Education Institute, 2017;
  • Member of the Advisory Boards of the following publications: De Jure, South African Law Journal, and Yearbook of South African Law, 2017 – 2020.

African Male, 62 years of age.

CURRENT POSITION

Judge President of the Western Cape Division of the High Court, appointed as such on 01 May 2000.

QUALIFICATIONS

• • B Juris (University of Fort Hare); LLB (University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg);
  • LLM (University of Cambridge, England); PhD (University of Cambridge, England); LLD (honoris causa)

PREVIOUS JUDICIAL POSITIONS:

• • Judge of the Western Cape Division of the High Court, 1995;
  • Acting Deputy Judge President of the Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division, 1998
  • Member of the Industrial Court of South Africa and Transkei.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD

• • Professor and Head of the Department of Constitutional and Public International Law (now called the Department of Public Law) at the University of Transkei (Now called Walter Sisulu University), 1994;
  • Lecturer in Industrial Relations at Damelin Management School (Umtata Branch); 1993 – 1994;
  • Part-time Lecturer in Public Law I and Public Law II at Transkei Technikon (Butterworth) 1993 – 1994);
  • Between 1991 – 1994: Vice-Dean of Law Faculty Acting Dean of Law for 2 terms;
  • Chief-Editor of the Transkei Law Journal at the University of Transkei;
  • Lecturer at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1988 – 1990;
  • Roman Law Tutor at the University of Cambridge, 1987;
  • Senior Lecturer at the University of Zululand (KwaDlangezwa), 1985;
  • Fellow at the Legal Resources Centre (Durban), 1984

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS / EXTRA-JUDICIAL WORK

• • Member of the South African Law Commission – Project on International and Domestic Arbitration;
  • Chancellor of the Peninsula Technikon, Western Cape Province in February 2003;
  • Represented South Africa at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (the multi-lateral treaty on: “Recognition, Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters” (Den Haag in April 1996);
  • Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, 1999;
  • Honorary Professor, University of South Africa (UNISA)