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Personal details

28 November 1956
Husband: Gcina Malindi
Three children

Education
  • Matric: (1973) St Annes College
  • BA (1976) University of Cape Town
  • LLB (1978) University of Cape Town
  • Certificate in Trusts and Deceased Estates (2002) University of South Africa
Professional history
  • Articles of clerkship, Johannesburg: Attorney Priscilla Jana: 1981-1983
  • Admitted as an attorney: 2 February 1984
  • Attorney, Johannesburg: 1984 – 2007.
  • Acting Judge, Johannesburg High Court: 2008 – 2009.
  • Judge; Johannesburg High Court: 1 September 2009 – May 2019.
  • Acting Judge; Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 October 2016 – 31 March 2017.
  • Acting Judge; Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June 2018 – 30 November 2018.
  • Acting Judge; Constitutional Court: 1 February – 1 June 2019.
  • Judge; Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June 2019
Other
  • Member of Nadel: 1988 - 2009
  • NEC member Nadel: 2001 - 2003
  • Councillor of Law Society of the Northern Provinces: 1999 – 2007
  • Member of the following committees of the Law Society: Finance and Audit Committee; Gender andTransformation Committee and Staff and Human Resources Committee
    Judges information courtsey of Supreme Court of Appeal(www.supremecourtofappeal.org.za)

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    Personal details

    10 July 1954, Qokolweni village, Mqanduli, Eastern Cape  

    Wife:  Sbongile Sybil
    Three children

    Education
    • Matric: Bensonvale High School, 1972
    • B. Proc, 1978
    • LLB degree at the University of Natal, 1989
    • Permanently appointed to the Bench in July 2005
    Professional history
    • Attorney: 1982 – 2005
    • Mthatha : 10 July 2005 – 31 May 2012  
    • Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of Appeal: 2012
    • Acting Justice, Constitutional Court: 2018

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    First appointed as a judge: 28-07-2008 to the Free State High Court

    Appointed to the Supreme Court of Appeal: 2018
    Further appointments: Appointed as JP Free State HC 2014

    Prior to her permanent appointment to the SCA in June 2018 Molemela had acted several times on that Bench and had spent two terms acting at the Constitutional Court in 2015.

     Molemela holds LLB and LLM degrees from the University of Free State,

    A member of the International Association of Women Judges, Molemela is current chancellor at the Central University of Technology

    Key judgments:

     (1) Gold Circle (Pty) Ltd v Maharaj (1313/17) [2019] ZASCA 93 (3 June 2019)

    (2) Purlish Holdings v The Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (76/18)[2019] ZASCA 04 (26 February 2019) ;

    (3) Joan Cynthia Griessel NO & others v De Kock (334/18) [2019] ZASCA 95 (6 June 2019)

    She is currently a board member of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and the Institute of Directors Southern Africa.