Personal:
09 October 1962
Wife: Nomalanga Rosina
Three children
Education:
Matric: Mamelodi High School
B Proc (1983), UNIN
Professional History:
State Prosecutor: 1983 – 1984
Served articles: 1985 – 1986
Admitted as an Attorney of the High Court Gauteng: 1986 – 2005
Appointed as the Judge of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng High Court: November 2005 – to date)
Appointed as Deputy Judge President of the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria: May 2013
Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court: January 2019 – June 2019
Chairperson of the Magistrates Commission from 01 April 2019
Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 01 April 2020 - 31 May 2020; 1 June 2020 - 30 November 2020; 1 December 2020 - 31 May 2021
Publications, Awards, Honours and Other Activities:
Council Member of the Law Society of the Northern Province: 1999 – 2005
Commissioner of the Small Claims Court: 2003 – 2005
Member of the Magistrates Commission: 2003 – 2005
Board Member of Mamelodi Hospital: 2004 – 2005
Attended the “Judges and the Media Pillars of Democracy Seminar: 24 – 25 October 2008; Muldersdrift
Member of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges since 2009
Participated in Trial Advocacy trainings organised by the BLA: 2010
Appointed as the Vice Chairperson of the National Council for Correctional Services: February 2010 – 2013
Participated in Advocacy training organised by GCB at the University of Pretoria: 2010 & 2011
Successfully attended the “Teachers Training weekend” organized by the General Council of the Bar for Advocacy Training: September 2011; Drakensberg, Free State
Successfully completed a five day training course “Training Judges on Intellectual Property Rights and Property Rights and Public Health”: 7 – 21 January; Ghana
Speaker and presenter at the Seminar for Regional Court Magistrates organised by the South African Judicial Education Institute: 24 January 2012; TOPIC: Adjudication of Road Accident Fund Matters AND Judicial approach to quantification of damages
Member of Judiciary Case Flow Management Committee established by the Chief Justice since 2013
Chaired Court Interpreters Capacitation Committee established by the Chief Justice: 2014 – 2016
Arranging training for aspirant Judges for the Law Society Northern Province since 2014
Member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee of the South African Law Reform Commission since 2018