PERSONAL

 

MAMOLOKO KUBUSHI

Born 29 December 1959 in Johannesburg

Partner: Pitso Sekhoto

Five children

 

EDUCATION

1978               :National Senior Certificate (first class pass) Mokomene High School

1983               :B Proc (University of the North)

1987               :Attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Free State Division)

1994               :Conveyancer and Notary (Free State Division)                        

1998               :Certificate in Management (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College).

1999               :Post-Grad Diploma in Management Studies (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College).

2000               :Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (University of the Free State).

2002               :Masters of Business Administration (MBA) (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College).

 

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

1984 – 1987              :Articles of Clerkship (Jake Moloi Fantisi & Co).

1987 – 1998              :Practised as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa.

1994 – 1998              :Practised as conveyancer and notary.

1998 -2002                :Head of the State Attorney (Free State and Northern Cape Provinces).

2002 - 1998               :Special Advisor (Legal) to the Minister of Defence.

1998 – 2011              :Chief Defence Legal Services (Department of Defence).

2/2011 – 12/2011      :Acting Judge High Court Free State Division.

01/2012 – 04/2012    :Acting Judge High Court Gauteng Division, Pretoria.

05/2012 to date         :Judge High Court Gauteng Division, Pretoria.

10/2015                     :Acting Puisne Judge of the High Court of Lesotho

2018 to date              :Chairperson of the Court of Military Appeals.

2021 – 2022              :Acting Judge of the Labour Appeal Court

1/22 – 12/22              :Acting Judge of the Competition Appeal Court

07/2022 to date         :Judge of the Equality Court

1/23 – 12/23              :Acting Judge of the Competition Appeal Court

02/24 – 05/24            :Acting Deputy Judge President Gauteng Division, Pretoria

07/24 – 09/24            :Acting Deputy Judge President Gauteng Division, Pretoria

10/24 – 11/24            :Acting Deputy Judge President Gauteng Division, Pretoria

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

1984 – 2012              :Member of the Black Lawyers Association (“BLA”).

1996 – 1997              :Chairperson of the Free State Branch BLA.

1997 – 2000              :National General Secretary BLA under the Presidency of Retired  Deputy Judge President Mojapelo and the late Judge Moloi.

2010 - 2017               :Trustee BLA Legal Education Trust.

1997 – 1998          :Member of the twenty-person committee tasked by the Minister of Justice to restructure the attorneys profession and drafting the Legal Practice Bill.

1997 – 1998              :BLA representative on the first Council of the Law Society of South Africa. 

As a Council member of the Law Society of South Africa served as chairperson of the Gender Equality Standing Committee. Instrumental in the first women lawyers’ conference in South Africa under the auspices “Women & the Law”.

2000                          :Represented the Law Society of South Africa at an International Women Lawyers Conference in London.

1998 – 2001              :Member of the Legal Aid Board under the chairmanship of Judge Navsa.

 

HONOURS

The first black woman to be admitted and enrolled as an attorney, conveyancer and notary, in the Free State Province.