Personal details
09 October 1962
Wife: Nomalanga Rosina
Three children
Education
- Matric: Mamelodi High School
- B Proc (1983), UNIN
Professional history
- State Prosecutor: 1983 – 1984
- Served articles: 1985 – 1986
- Admitted as an Attorney of the High Court Gauteng: 1986 – 2005
- Appointed as the Judge of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng High Court: November 2005 – to date)
- Appointed as Deputy Judge President of the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria: May 2013
- Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court: January 2019 – June 2019
- Chairperson of the Magistrates Commission from 01 April 2019
- Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 01 April 2020 - 31 May 2020; 1 June 2020 - 30 November 2020; 1 December 2020 - 31 May 2021
Publications, Honours and other Activities:
- Council Member of the Law Society of the Northern Province: 1999 – 2005
- Commissioner of the Small Claims Court: 2003 – 2005
- Member of the Magistrates Commission: 2003 – 2005
- Board Member of Mamelodi Hospital: 2004 – 2005
- Attended the “Judges and the Media Pillars of Democracy Seminar: 24 – 25 October 2008; Muldersdrift
- Member of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges since 2009
- Participated in Trial Advocacy trainings organised by the BLA: 2010
- Appointed as the Vice Chairperson of the National Council for Correctional Services: February 2010 – 2013
- Participated in Advocacy training organised by GCB at the University of Pretoria: 2010 & 2011
- Successfully attended the “Teachers Training weekend” organized by the General Council of the Bar for Advocacy Training: September 2011; Drakensberg, Free State
- Successfully completed a five day training course “Training Judges on Intellectual Property Rights and Property Rights and Public Health”: 7 – 21 January; Ghana
- Speaker and presenter at the Seminar for Regional Court Magistrates organised by the South African Judicial Education Institute: 24 January 2012; TOPIC: Adjudication of Road Accident Fund Matters AND Judicial approach to quantification of damages
- Member of Judiciary Case Flow Management Committee established by the Chief Justice since 2013
- Chaired Court Interpreters Capacitation Committee established by the Chief Justice: 2014 – 2016
- Arranging training for aspirant Judges for the Law Society Northern Province since 2014
- Member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee of the South African Law Reform Commission since 2018
