Former Acting Justice Dambuza

Nambitha Dambuza is a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa, which is located in Bloemfontein in the Free State Province. She has served as a judge of that court for six years. Prior to that she was a judge of the High Cout in the Eastern Cape Province for eleven years. During the same period she was a judge of the Competition Appeal Court and has previously served as Acting Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Her other positions include: Chairperson of the Rules Board for the Courts of Law in South Africa; visiting Professor at the Rhodes University Faculty of Law, in Makhanda; South Africa, Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela University Council, South Africa; Judicial Educator with the South African Judiciary; Board member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment; and Trustee of the Heatherbank Farm School in Gqeberha, South Africa.

Previous positions include: member of the Judicial Conduct Committee of the Judicial Service Commission, South Africa; council member of the South African Judicial Education Institute (SAJEI); convenor of the New Judges Orientation Seminar, South African Judiciary; Chairperson of the African Judicial Education Network on Environmental Law (Ajenel); and Chairperson of the Walter Sisulu University Council, South Africa.

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THE HISTORY OF THE IDEA

The notion of a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1955 carried the idea forward.