Personal details
Khayelihle Kenneth Mthiyane was born in Ndwedwe, KwaZulu-Natal, on 13 September 1944. He attended school in Durban and matriculated by private study. He is married to S'Thandiwe Phyllis Mthiyane (born Khuzwayo), with whom he has four daughters.
Education
Mthiyane obtained the B.Iuris degree from UNISA in 1972. He obtained an LL.B in 1984 and an LL.M in 1994, both from the University of Natal, Durban.
Professional history
Mthiyane was admitted as an attorney in 1975 and later established K. K. Mthiyane and Company, a law firm in Durban dealing mainly with public interest and political cases, apart from general commercial, civil and criminal cases involving litigants from the then disadvantaged communities.
Mthiyane joined the Durban Bar in 1984 and took silk in 1995.
During 1995, he chaired two Commissions of Enquiry which investigated racism at the University of Zululand and the then University of Durban Westville.
In the last term of 1995, Mthiyane served as an Acting Judge in the Ciskei Division of the Supreme Court at Bhisho.
In 1997, he headed the three-person Mthiyane Commission which investigated corruption, racism and other irregularities in twenty-two provincial hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal with a view to establishing clean governance. The report and the recommendations of the Commission resulted in the abatement chaos that had threatened to destabilise service delivery in the province and a number of dismissals and prosecutions followed.
In 1997, Mthiyane was appointed as a Judge of the Natal Supreme Court, and in 2000, he served as an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
In 2001, Mthiyane was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal.
In 2002, he was appointed as the Chairperson and Head of the Electoral Court.
Since 2006, Mthiyane has served as the Vice-Chairperson of the Rules Board for Courts of Law in South Africa.
During May 2008, Mthiyane served as an Acting Judge in the Supreme Court of Namibia.
In 2011, Mthiyane was appointed as an Acting Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Other activities
- Mthiyane has served as the chairperson of the Durban branch of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers.
- He has also served as an instructor and part-time lecturer at the Practical Training School for attorneys at Howard College, University of Natal, run by the Association of Law Societies, where he taught supreme court practice and procedure.
- Leading up to the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, Mthiyane actively participated in providing legal assistance and voter education to the (until then) disenfranchised communities.
- Member of the Council of the University of Pretoria, as donor representative, for seventeen years, and was and still is, an assessor member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria.
- He serves as a Council Member of The Beatrice St Congregational Church in Durban.
- Mthiyane is involved in sport and in various other community activities, and he enjoys reading, gym and golf.
Personal details
Keoagile Elias Matojane was born in Soweto and is married with three children
Education
Matriculated at Madibane High School in 1981
B Proc (University of Zululand) 1986
LLB (University of Zululand) 1988
LLM (University of Johannesburg) 1995
LLM (University of South Africa) 2007
Advanced diploma in Company Law (University of Johannesburg) 2001
National Diploma in Trial Advocacy ( University of Colorado, Boulder. USA. 1994
Professional history
Admitted as an Attorney (1991)
Admitted as a Conveyancer (2000)
Right of appearance in the High Court (1995)
Judicial positions
Acting Judge of the Cape of Good Hope (2007 - 2008)
Acting Judge of the South Gauteng Division of the High Court (2009)
Appointed Judge of the South and North division of High Court (2009)
Judge of the Land Claims Court (2014)
Acting Judge President of the Land Claims Court (2014)
Acting Judge of the Constitutional Court (2015)
Other Activities
Conducts trainings in Trial Advocacy under the auspices of the BLA Education Centre.
Personal details
John James Trengove was born in Stellenbosch on 3 October 1919. He is married to Izabel (formerly Erasmus). They have four children and fourteen grandchildren.
Education
Trengove matriculated at Stellenbosch Boys’ High School (now Paul Roos Gymnasium) in 1936. He graduated from the University of Pretoria (as an extra-mural student) with a BA Degree (cum laude) in 1944 and his LLB degree (cum laude) in 1946.
Professional history
From 1946 to 1966 Trengove practiced as an advocate, becoming Senior Counsel in 1960. During this period he served on the Pretoria Bar Council (as Chairman in 1966) and also on the General Council of the Bar of South Africa.
From 1967 to 1978 he served on the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court and on the Appellate Division from 1978 to 1986.
After taking early retirement at the end of 1986 he served on the Courts of Appeal of Lesotho and Swaziland and also as an Acting Judge on the High Courts of Botswana, Namibia and for one term on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Other activities
- National President of FAMSA (National Council for Marriage and Family Life) for about five years.
- National Chairman of NICRO (National Institute for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of Offenders) for about two years.
- Member of the Board of Trustees the Legal Resources Trust.
- Member of the Council of the University of Pretoria, as donor representative, for seventeen years, and was and still is, an assessor member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria.
- Set up the Office of the Judicial Inspectorate, and served as the first Inspecting Judge for a period of three years.
- Awarded a LLD Degree (Honoris Causa) at the University of Pretoria, and a Laureate Award by the Association of Alumni of the University of Pretoria.