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1932

Johann Christiaan Kriegler

… (aspirant, induction and continuing for lower and superior courts) and the training of public prosecutors and practising …

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1961

Mogoeng Thomas Mogoeng

… Committee, which reported to the various heads of courts. He was the leader of the team that organised the …

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1861-1951

Sefako Mapogo Makgatho

… Congress [ANC] during his tenure), Makgatho used the courts to challenge legislation that affected and undermined … 1930s a range of government laws were…

B-0070720

1879-1924

Alfred Mangena

… for libelandwasawarded damages. Mangena fought against courts that did not allow black people access, save for if … Together the pair defended their people…

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1905-1994

Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels

… In 1966 he was appointed as a Justice of the Appeal Courts of the former British Protectorates, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. As these courts only sat for…

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1954

Billy Lesedi Masetlha

Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is a founder member of the Congress of South African…

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Richard Goldstone

… Richard Goldstone has served in the most influential courts in the country as Judge of the Appellate Division of …

B-0008109

1958-2012

Aaron Sipho Madondo

Aaron Sipho Madondo, the last of 11 children in his family was born on 6 August 1958 in Mofolo South, Soweto.  He began his primary school education at Gugu…

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1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… for the Evening Post under the nom de plume (Libertas [xiii] ). Warned that he would suffer when the Coloured … by Gunvant Govindjee educationalist and…

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1954

Lesedi Billy Masetlha

Lesedi Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng).He was one of the six children in a family with roots in…

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1949

Lex Mpati

Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…

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1969-1989

Robert Anthony Basil Waterwitch

Robert ‘Robbie’ Anthony Basil Waterwitch was born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats. Remembered as a…

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Ras Thomas Mokoka

Ras Thomas Mokoka, originally resident at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, [Western] Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 19…

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David Thlolanyane Mabe

David Thlolanyane Mabe, originally resident at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Western Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 26…

B-0149305

1937-2010

Tholakele Madala

Tholakele Madala was born in Kokstad on 13 July 1937. He matriculated at St John's College in Umtata before obtaining a BA degree at the University of Fort…

B-0149480

Thomas G. Karis

… from 1906 to 1938, he probed the question of whether the courts were deterring Congress. His life-long interest in …

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1953

Sandile Ngcobo

… Judge President of the Labour Court and Labour Appeal Courts. President Jacob Zuma officially announced Judge …

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Elliot Shabangu

Shabangu was an active organiser at the street level for the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in Dube,…

B-0149245

L.W.H Ackermann

Justice of the South African Constitutional Court 1994 -

B-0149511

1962

Christopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu

… years, law, detention, Apartheid, solitary confinement, courts, EFF’. Interviewed by Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, SMWX, … years, law, detention, Apartheid, solitary…

B-0152576

1948

Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso

… over Alexandra, render it ungovernable and form a people's courts. This led them to endure the wrath of the government, …

B-0008505

1851-1930

William Henry Beaumont

… the Board to frame Rules and Regulations for the Inferior Courts in 1894. As a result of his work in justice system …

B-0148764

1880-1945

Shapurji Jivanji Randeria

Shapurji Jivanji Randeria was born at Rander in the Surat district in India in 1880. He arrived in South Africa in 1900. He had passed the senior book-keeping…

B-0148511

1920

Joel Mabi Lengisi

Joel Mabi  Lengisi was born in 1920 at the Sitholeni Location, Engcobo, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], Lengisi later moved to  East London African…

B-0141697

1958

Iqbal Shaik Mohammed

Mohammed Iqbal Shaik was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg on 26 August 1958. He became politically active when he was a student leader at the M.L. Sultan…

B-0149454

Kuben Naidoo

When Prema Naidoo and others were detained in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, Kuben Naidoo, holding up a banner…

B-0148751

Mceleli Bongwefile Buthelezi

… latter contested Buthelezi’s appointment as Chief in the courts to no avail. The dispute over chieftainship and …

B-0148482

1879-1931

Stephen William Black

… of colourful low-life in the Cape Town Magistrate's Courts, from which he derived much of his zestful, tangy …

B-0007859

1968

Jundea Bolowa Tubakwa

According to the minster of police in May 1969 Mr Jundea Tubakwa was detained on 10th September 1968 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and on 11th …

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