Personal: 
25 June 1957, Kimberley, Northern Cape
Wife: Belinda Ann
Two children
Education:
Matric (1974): Grey College, Bloemfontein
B Proc (1979) University of the Free State
LLB (1981) University of South Africa
LLM (1998) (Tax, company, and insolvency law) University of South Africa
MBA (2002) (Dissertation on Mergers and Acquisitions: BoE, NBS and Boland Bank merger) Buckinghamshire–Chilterns University College
Professional History:
Attorney, notary, and conveyancer: February 1980 to July 1989
Practising advocate: Free State Society of Advocates: 1989 to 31 December 2011
Advocate: Kingdom of Lesotho: till December 2011
Acting Judge: Free State High Court: 24 May 2010 to 25 June 2010, 16 August 2010 to 3 September 2010, 23 July 2011 to 23 September 2011
Judge: Free State High Court: 1 January 2012 to date
President of the Lesotho Court-Martial Appeal Court: 2016 to date
Acting Deputy Judge President: Free State High Court: 3rd term 2018, 4th term 2019, 1st term and part of the 4th term 2020, and 15 May 2021 – 18 June 2021
Additional member of Special Tribunal: 1 May 2022
Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June – 30 November 2022; 1 April 2023 -31 May 2023; 1 June -30 November 2023
Other Activities:
Part-time lecturer in conveyancing at the University of the Free State: 1989 to 1995
Past instructor of the former Law Society of South Africa, the subjects being High Court Litigation and the law pertaining to Business Enterprises
Member of the Bar Council of the Free State Society of Advocates: 2003 to 2011
Attended an aspirant Judges’ Programme in January 2004 as part of the Canada-South Africa Justice Linkage Project
Attended a Young Leaders’ Symposium in July 2004 under the auspices of the General Council of the Bar (GCB) in South Africa
Past member of the SA Fellowship of Advocacy Training
Past chairperson of the Pupilage Committee of the Free State Society of Advocates and co-ordinator of training of aspirant advocates
Senior counsel (silk) on 22 April 2009
Chairperson of the Free State Society of Advocates: 2010 - 2011
External moderator in Private Law at the University of the Free State for several years and since 2019 for LLM students
Attended advanced Tax Law seminar for judges: July 2017
Attended, as nominated delegate of Free State judges, the Fourth Congress of the Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa: April 2017
From time to time since being elevated to the bench involved in practical training of pupil members of the Free State Society of Advocates
Chairperson of the Finance and ITC committees of the Free State Judiciary
Delivered several speeches on various topics and different occasions to legal practitioners, magistrates, senior public servants as invitee of the Public Service Commission (Free State Office), prosecutors and State Law Advisors: 2013 – 2020
Presented lecture on behalf of SAJEI to Regional Court Magistrates in respect of civil practice and procedure in 2021; also lectures to members of the Black Lawyers’ Association in 2020 and 2021
Co-author in updating Corbett and Honey, The Quantum of Damages bi-annually
Member of the Governing Body of Grey College: 1998 to 2007 and during that time chairperson of the Personnel Committee and member of the Disciplinary Committee thereof
Chairperson of the Free State Cheetahs Rugby Union’s Disciplinary Committee: 2004 - 2011
Member of the cycling team of the Teddy Bear Foundation for Abused Children, a non-profit organisation
Avid cyclist, having completed several Cape Argus, 94.7, and other cycling events
