Personal details
Born on 29th July 1952. After matriculating in Pietersburg in 1970
Education
BProc Degree (University of the North)
Bachelor of Laws degree (University of the North)
LLM in Labour Law
Professional history
Magistrate Ga-Rankuwa - Legal Assistant: Administration of Deceased estates (1977 – 1978)
Public Prosecutor (1978 – 1980)
Regional Court Senior Control Prosecutor: Bophuthatswana, West Regional Division (1981 – 1986)
State Advocate: Bophuthatswana High Court (1987 – 1990)
Pupillage – Pretoria Bar - First Black woman to join the Pretoria Bar (1990)
Practicing as an Advocate: North West Bar Association (1991 – 1997)
Lecturer in Civil and Criminal Procedure, and Practical Legal Training – University of the North West, Mmabatho (1997 – 1999)
Judicial positions
Judge of the High Court, Bophuthatswana Provincial Division, Mafikeng (1999)
Acting Judge President (Bophuthatswana Provincial Division) (2005)
Acting Judge at the Labour Court of South Africa, Johannesburg (2007)
Acting Judge of the Labour Appeal Court (2007)
Judge of the Labour Appeal Court (2007)
Judge President of North West High Court, Mafikeng (2010)
Acting Judge in the Constitutional Court (2014)
Judicial and Professional bodies served
Served as Provincial Secretary: Judiciary in (North West Province) (1994)
Skweyiya Commission: served as an investigator evidence/presenter tasked with the investigation of Corruption in the erstwhile Bophuthatswana Government (1995)
Member of the University of Bophuthatswana Council (Senator representing the Faculty of Law) (1998 – 1999)
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Lawyers for Human Rights (2001 – 2006)
Interim and Permanent member of Council of University of Limpopo (2004 to date)
Served as a member of the Committee responsible for the Judicial Training Programme for Aspirant Women Judges (2006)
Presently a member of the International Association of Women Judges. Served as the Regional Representative of the Africa Region and was Provincial Representative in the North West Province of the South African Chapter (2006)
Serves on several Judicial Committees such as South African Judicial Education Institution, Judicial Case Flow Management Committee and Judicial Complaints Committee and National Library Committee (2014)
Personal details
2 May 1964, Port Elizabeth. One child
Education
- Matric: Kenneth Masekela High School, Kwa-Thema, Springs
- B Proc (1987) University of the North, Limpopo
Professional history
- Attorney, N Mhlantla & Associates: 1990 – 31 May 2002
- Acting Judge, Eastern Cape High Court: April 2000 – 30 September 2000
- Judge of the High Court, Eastern Cape: 1 June 2002 – 30 November 2008
- Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June – 30 November 2008
- Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of Appeal: 2009
Personal details
Mahube Molemela (born Eister) was born in Bloemfontein
Education
She matriculated at Albert Moroka High School in Thaba Nchu in 1981.
She obtained her tertiary education at various institutions where she obtained the following degrees and diplomas:
B.A. (University of Fort Hare)
B Proc (University of Fort Hare
LL B (University of the Free State)
LL M (in Mercantile Law (Labour Law & Human Rights),(University of the Free State).
Awarded Diplomas and Certificates :
Advanced Diploma in Labour Law (RAU) (now known as the University of Johannesburg)
Certificate in Human Rights (Danish Centre for Human Rights, Denmark) (attendance)
Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (Buckinghamshire University in association with MANCOSA)
Certificate in Advanced Military Law (Thaba Tshwane College) and
Certificate in Socio Economic Rights (University of Pretoria) (attendance).
Professional history
Prosecutor at Thaba Nchu Magistrate’s Court (1987)
Served her articles of clerkship at the firm E G Cooper & Sons and the firm Peete Jake Moloi Attorneys
Admitted as an attorney (1993)
Conveyancer and a Notary (1996)
Part-time lecturer at the University of the Free State for a period of two years
Councillor of the Law Society of the Free State
Commissioner at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA)
Arbitrator for various Dispute Resolution organizations.
Member of the Board Of Control of the Law Society of South Africa’s School for Legal Practice, Free State
Examiner for the Conveyancing examinations under the auspices of the Law Society of the Free State
Observer Member of the Board of Control of the Attorneys Fidelity Fund
Trustee of the Black Lawyers Association’s Legal Education Centre (BLA LEC)
Chairman of Centlec as well as a provincial board member of ABSA Bank
Council member of the Central University of Technology (CUT) and is a member of its Audit and Risk Committee.
Judicial positions
Military Judge during 2004
Acting Judge of the Free State High Court on an ad hoc basis from October 2005
Acting Judge at the Gauteng High Court
Judge Free State Division of the High Court (July 2008)
Judge President Free State Division of the High Court (01 January 2015)
Judge of the Labour Appeal Court
Acting Judge of the Competition Appeal Court
acting Justice of the Constitutional Court (2015)
Attorneys’ Firms attached to as a director
M B Molemela Attorneys
Kubushi-Molemela Attorneys
Claude Reid Inc and Smith Tabata Buchanan Boyes Inc in Johannesburg