Personal:

17 November 1962, Springs

Education: 

Dipl Iuris (1985) University of Western Cape

BA (Law) (1988) University of Western Cape

LLB (1991) University of Western Cape

BA (Hon) Public Administration (1993) University Western Cape

LLM (1995) University of Cape Town

Admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa 2001

Professional History:

Public Prosecutor: 1986-1992

Regional Court Control Prosecutor: 1991-1992

District Magistrate Criminal, Family and Civil Courts: 1992-1997  

Regional Magistrate: 1997- 2004

Acting Judge; Northern Cape High Court, Kimberly: 2004-2005

Judge; Free State High Court, Bloemfontein: 2005-2017

Acting Judge; Labour Court: 2008-2008; 2009-2009

Acting Judge; Lesotho High Court: 2010-2012

Acting Judge; Lesotho Labour Appeal Court: 2010-2012 

Designated Acting Judge; Lesotho Commercial Court: 11 Jul 2012          

Acting Judge; Labour Appeal Court: 2013-2013                          

Judge; Labour Appeal Court: Jul 2014                                                    

Acting Judge President; Free State High Court: Feb 2015-Apr 2015        

Acting Judge; Constitutional Court of South Africa: Aug 2016-Dec 2016   

Acting Judge President; Free State High Court: Dec 2016           

Deputy Judge President; Free State High Court: Jan 2017-Nov 2018       

Acting Judge President; Free State High Court: Jan 2017-Sep 2017        

Acting Judge President; Free State High Court: Jun 2018-Nov 2018        

Judge President; Free State High Court: 1 Dec 2018 – to date                

Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 December 2021 – 31 March 2022; 1 April 2022 – 31 May 2022.

Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal; 1 October – 30 November 2023.

Other Activities:

Peer facilitator, training magistrates and Judges, nationally and internationally, on topics including:

Maintenance; Inter-sectionality between HIV/Aids and domestic violence; Domestic violence Act;

Social context in judicial decision making; Equality court matters; Human rights in context of criminal matters; Judgement Writing; Sentencing; Social Context in Judicial Decision Making; Adjudication on matters involving the right to equality; Admissibility of electronic evidence; Judicial Accountability and Ethics; Ethics; Social Media and the Judiciary; Judicial Independence.

Deputy Chairperson, Magistrates’ Association of South Africa – (Western Cape): 1993-1994

Member of executive committee, Magistrates’ Association of South Africa: 1994-1995

Chairperson (Western Cape), Judicial Officers’ Association of South Africa (JOASA): 2000 – 2001.

National President, Judicial Officers’ Association of South Africa (JOASA): 2002 – 2004

President, African Regional Group of the International Association of Judges: 2010 – 2018

Currently Hon President, African Regional Group

One of the Vice Presidents, International Association of Judges: 2010 – 2018.

Board Member: Law, Race and Gender Research Unit (University of Cape Town): 2005

Advisory Board Member: Canada – SA – Justice Linkage Project: 2002

Member, Free State Centre for Human Rights Advisory Board: 8 Oct 2018 – To Date.

Chairperson, Malibu Village Residents and Ratepayers’ Association

Member, Western Cape Appointments Committee for Magistrates: 2001 – 2004

Previously Chairperson, Commission for The Remuneration of Public Office Bearers: 2014 – 2019

Member, Judicial Accountability Committee (High Courts)

Chairperson, Judicial Accountability Committee for The Lower Courts Member of the Judicial Case Flow

Management Committee Managing Editor, South African Judicial Education Journal

Board Member, South African Judicial Education Institute.

Personal:

13 February 1974, Cape Town

Married 

Three children

Education:

Matric: Belgravia High School, Athlone Cape Town (1991)

BA (Law): Unversity of Western Cape (1994)

LLB: Unversity of Western Cape (1996)

School for Legal Practice: Unversity of Cape Town (1997)

Professional History: 

Candidate Attorney: (July 1997 – June 1998), E. Moosa, Waglay and Petersen Attorneys, Athlone, Cape Town

Admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa: (July 1998)

Professional Associate: (July 1998 – September 1999), E. Moosa, Waglay and Petersen Attorneys, Cape Town

Practice for own account: (October 1999 to 2014), Wynberg, Cape Town

Acting Judge: Western Cape High Court of South Africa: July 2013 – December 2014

Judge: Western Cape High Court of South Africa: 2015

Acting Judge: Supreme Court of Appeal; 1 April 2022 – 30 November 2022.

Other Activities: 

IMSSA: Independent Mediation Service of South Africa- Voter Education

Tutor: Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape (1994 – 1996)

Lecturer: Cape Law Society Legal Training

Street Law Project ‘Democracy for All’: University of the Western Cape – Trainer

Department of Correctional Services: Literacy Project for offenders and rehabilitation projects (2019)

National Family Law Webinar: Presented paper on ‘The Voice of the child in our Democracy’ (2021)

Personal: 

10 January 1968, Johannesburg

Married Three children

Education:

Matric: Westerford High School, Cape Town 

B.A: University of Cape Town (1988)

LLB: University of Cape Town (1991)

LLM: University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (summa cum laude) (1997)

Professional History: 

Candidate Attorney and Attorney: Chennells Albertyn, Stellenbosch: 1992-1995. 

Deputy Director Mediation: Independent Electoral Commission, Western Cape - elections 1994.
Legal Researcher: African National Congress Constitutional Commission in Parliament 1995 -1996.
Attorney: Legal Resources Centre Constitutional Litigation Unit, Johannesburg 1996 – 1997.

Commissioner: Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration, Johannesburg 1997 – 2000.

Attorney: Haffegee Roskam Savage Attorneys 2000 - 2008.

Director: Bowman Gilfillan 2008 - 2012.

Arbitrator and mediator on dispute resolution panels including IMSSA, AMSSA, Tokiso, PSCBC, PHWSBC, ELRC, SSSBC, CCMA variously from 1994 - 2012.

Acting Judge: Labour Court 4^th term 2011.
Acting Judge: Western Cape High Court 4^th term 2012 – end 4^th term 2014
Judge: Western Cape High Court 2015 to date

Acting Judge: Labour Appeal Court 2015 to date.

Acting Judge: Competition Appeal Court: February 2022 to date.

Acting Judge: Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 April 2022 – 31 May 2022.

Other Activities: 

Board Member: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) 2004 to date

Trustee: Constitutional Court Trust until 2019

Member of South African Society for Labour Law to date.

Personal: 

25 June 1957, Kimberley, Northern Cape

Wife: Belinda Ann

Two children

Education: 

Matric (1974): Grey College, Bloemfontein

B Proc (1979) University of the Free State

LLB (1981) University of South Africa

LLM (1998) (Tax, company, and insolvency law) University of South Africa

MBA (2002) (Dissertation on Mergers and Acquisitions: BoE, NBS and Boland Bank merger) Buckinghamshire–Chilterns University College

Professional History: 

Attorney, notary, and conveyancer: February 1980 to July 1989

Practising advocate: Free State Society of Advocates: 1989 to 31 December 2011

Advocate: Kingdom of Lesotho: till December 2011

Acting Judge: Free State High Court: 24 May 2010 to 25 June 2010, 16 August 2010 to 3 September 2010, 23 July 2011 to 23 September 2011

Judge: Free State High Court: 1 January 2012 to date

President of the Lesotho Court-Martial Appeal Court: 2016 to date

Acting Deputy Judge President: Free State High Court: 3^rd term 2018, 4^th term 2019, 1^st term and part of the 4^th term 2020, and 15 May 2021 – 18 June 2021

Additional member of Special Tribunal: 1 May 2022

Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June – 30 November 2022; 1 April 2023 -31 May 2023; 1 June -30 November 2023

Other Activities:

Part-time lecturer in conveyancing at the University of the Free State: 1989 to 1995

Past instructor of the former Law Society of South Africa, the subjects being High Court Litigation and the law pertaining to Business Enterprises

Member of the Bar Council of the Free State Society of Advocates: 2003 to 2011

Attended an aspirant Judges’ Programme in January 2004 as part of the Canada-South Africa Justice Linkage Project

Attended a Young Leaders’ Symposium in July 2004 under the auspices of the General Council of the Bar (GCB) in South Africa

Past member of the SA Fellowship of Advocacy Training

Past chairperson of the Pupilage Committee of the Free State Society of Advocates and co-ordinator of training of aspirant advocates

Senior counsel (silk) on 22 April 2009

Chairperson of the Free State Society of Advocates: 2010 - 2011

External moderator in Private Law at the University of the Free State for several years and since 2019 for LLM students

Attended advanced Tax Law seminar for judges: July 2017

Attended, as nominated delegate of Free State judges, the Fourth Congress of the Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa: April 2017

From time to time since being elevated to the bench involved in practical training of pupil members of the Free State Society of Advocates

Chairperson of the Finance and ITC committees of the Free State Judiciary

Delivered several speeches on various topics and different occasions to legal practitioners, magistrates, senior public servants as invitee of the Public Service Commission (Free State Office), prosecutors and State Law Advisors: 2013 – 2020

Presented lecture on behalf of SAJEI to Regional Court Magistrates in respect of civil practice and procedure in 2021; also lectures to members of the Black Lawyers’ Association in 2020 and 2021

Co-author in updating Corbett and Honey, The Quantum of Damages bi-annually

Member of the Governing Body of Grey College: 1998 to 2007 and during that time chairperson of the Personnel Committee and member of the Disciplinary Committee thereof

Chairperson of the Free State Cheetahs Rugby Union’s Disciplinary Committee: 2004 - 2011

Member of the cycling team of the Teddy Bear Foundation for Abused Children, a non-profit organisation

Avid cyclist, having completed several Cape Argus, 94.7, and other cycling events