President:
- President M M L Maya
Deputy Judge President:
- Deputy President X M Petse
Judges:
- Justice M S Navsa
- Justice V M Ponnan
- Justice A Cachalia
- Justice M J D Wallis
- Justice H Saldulker
- Justice K G B Swain
- Justice B H Mbha
- Justice D H Zondi
- Justice N Dambuza
- Justice C H G Van der Merwe
- Justice M B Molemela
- Justice T M Makgoka
- Justice A Schippers
- Justice F E Mokgohloa
- Justice C M Plasket
- Justice D V Dlodlo
- Justice C H Nicholls
- Justice Y T Mbatha
Acting Judges:
- Mojapelo P M D
- Ledwaba A P
- Koen P A
- Gorven T R
- Eksteen J W
‘Human Rights Litigation’ in Introduction to Human Rights Law (2ed), A Govindjee (ed), 2016 LexisNexis
‘Rights Activism as a Key to Transformative Jurisprudence’ in South Africa’s Constitution at 21, J Meiring (ed), 2017 Penguin Random House
‘Ethics as a Driver of Transformation of the Legal Profession’, SAJEJ, Vol 2, Issue 1, (2019)
‘Covid 19 and the Courts: Justice in Lockdown’ (2020) 33.2 Advocate 34 (August 2020)
Activities:
Instructor in Constitutional Litigation: LSSA Practical Legal School 1998 – 2005
Pupilage Coordinator (Eastern Cape) 2004 – 2006
Independent Trial Observer obo International Bar Association, Zimbabwe, 2006
Chairperson, Port Elizabeth Society of Advocates 2006 – 2008
Chairperson, Eastern Cape Society of Advocates 2007
Pupilage Coordinator for General Council of the Bar 2009 - 2011
Faculty Advisory Board for the Review of the LLB Curriculum, Nelson Mandela University 2009 – 2011
External Examiner in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Rhodes University, 1998 to present
Adjunct Professor in Public Law, Nelson Mandela University 2008 – to present
Member of the Faculty of Advocacy Trainers, General Council of the Bar
Mediation Training for South African Judges, Utah United States of America, October 2019 hosted by University of Utah and Brigham Young University
Webinar on Judicial Responses to Covid 19 Pandemic, hosted by Nelson Mandela University, May 2020
Access to Justice and Online Courts, panel hosted by Hans Seidel Foundation and UCT Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, April 2021
Instructor on SAJEI training seminars for judicial officers on Virtual Courts, Motion Court Procedure and Mediation – 2020, 2021 and 2022
The Future of Judicial Digital Transformation in Africa and Adoption of All Technology for Automated Judicial Decision Making, African Judges Panel During Africa Legal Innovation Week 2022, Hosted by The Lawyers Hub, Kenya, November 2022.
Personal 
18 June 1964, Baragwanath, JHB, Gauteng Province
Single
Three dependants
Education
Matric : Alfred Maubane High, Hammanskraal
B Proc : (1987) Unversity of the North
LLB (2005) UNISA
LLM (2008) UNISA
Professional History
Prosecutor 1988 (Taung Magistrate office)
Magistrate 1991 (Taung Magistrate office)
Magistrate Head of office (Pampierstadt Magistrate office and Ganyesa Magistrate office) 1993-1999
Senior Magistrate (1999) (Upington Magistrate office)
Trainer / Lecturer to Magistrates 2001-2007 (Justice College)
Trainer/Lecturer to Magistrates in Namibia 2006-2007
Regional Court Magistrate 2007 (Pretoria/Mamelodi Magistrate office)
Acting Judge Mahikeng High Court 2008
Judge of the High Court Mahikeng 2009
Acting Deputy Judge President Mahikeng High Court (30 July 2018 - 21 September 2018)
Judge of the High Court Mpumalanga July 2019 to now
Acting Deputy Judge President Mpumalanga High Court (27 January 2020 - 27 March 2020)
Acting Deputy Judge President Mpumalanga (05 October 2020 - 30 November 2020)
Acting Judge Supreme Court of Appeal 01 December 2020 - 31 March 2021; 1 June 2021 - 30 September 2021; 01 October 2021 - 30 November 2021; 1 June 2022 - 30 September 2022
Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, 1 December 2023
Publications, Awards, Honours and other Activities
Founder member of the SAC-IAWJ (2004 to date)
Provincial co-ordinator North-West Province of SAC-IAWJ (2010-2014)
President of SAC-IWAJ (two terms) 2014-2018
President of the African Region of the IAWJ- (2015-2017)
Trustee of the SAC- IAWJ Trust 2018 till now
Deputy Chairperson of the Curriculum and Development committee of SAC-IAWJ Trust; (2020)
Member of the Presidential Advisory Council of SAC-IAWJ (2020)
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the SAC-IAWJ Law Journal (2020)
Served as an Assessor in S v Nkuna (Case where the body was not found)- (2005)
Appointed to Investigate merit grievances of Magistrates in Limpopo, Gauteng and KZN (2004-2005)
Served on the Committee that was responsible for the development of the Criminal Court Bench –Books for Magistrates
Served on the Committee that was responsible for the development of the Child Law Manual for Magistrates
Served on the Committee that was responsible for the development of the Customary Marriage Bench Books for Magistrates
Served on the committee that was responsible for the drafting and development of an Ethic Manual for Magistrates
Served on the committee that was responsible for drafting guidelines for Magistrates in Domestic Violence
Served on the Judicial Officers Gender Forum
Awarded a merit award for Excellent Performance as a magistrate on category “A” 1997
Awarded a merit Award on category “B” for the years 1998, 1999, 2003 and 2004
Personal 
22 October 1958, Cape Town
Wife: Susan Rogers
No children
Education
Matric: Wynberg Boys High School, Cape Town
BA Cum Laude (1982) University of Cape Town
BA Hons, Classics (First Class) (1983) University of Cape Town
LLB Magna Cum Laude (1985) University of Cape Town
Professional History
Articled clerk; Sonnenberg Hoffmann & Galombik, Cape Town: 1986-1987
Pupillage at the Cape Bar: Jan-July 1988
Advocate at the Cape Bar:1988-2012
Awarded status of senior counsel: 1999
Treasurer, honorary secretary and member of the Cape Bar Council: 1994-1998; 2000-2003
Chairperson of the Cape Bar Council: 2004-2005
Chairperson of tribunals established in terms of s 15K of the Pension Funds Act
Acting Judge; Western Cape High Court: various periods in 2001, 2003, 2009 and 2011
Acting Judge; Labour Court: fourth term 2002
Judge; Western Cape High Court: since 2013
Acting Judge of Appeal; Competition Appeal Court: 2015-2016
Judge of Appeal; Competition Appeal Court: since 2017
Publications, Awards, Honours and Other Activities
‘The Action of the Disappointed Beneficiary (1986) 103 SALJ 683.
When All Else has Failed: Illegal Strikes, Ultimatums and Mass Dismissals 1991 (12) ILJ 1171 (co-authored with Jeremy Gauntlett)
Silk: Why it should go Advocate (December 2006) 26
High Fees and Dubious Practices Advocate (April 2012) 40
The Ethics of the Hopeless Case Advocate (December 2017) 46.
To Give and to Gain: Judicial involvement in advocacy training SAJEJ Vol 1(1) 2018.
Lawyers in Turmoil: The Johannesburg Conspiracy of 1895 (Stormberg, 2020)
Honorary Judicial Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
Subcategories
MAYA, MANDISA MURIEL LINDELWA
Personal:
20 March 1964, St Cuthberts, Tsolo, Eastern Cape
Husband: Dabulamanzi Mlokoti
Three children
Education:
Matric: St Johns College, Mthatha
B Proc (1986) University of Transkei
LLB (1988) University of Natal, Durban
LLM (1990) Duke University, NC, USA
Professional History:
Attorney’s clerk; Dazana Mafungo Inc, Mthatha: 1987-1988
Court Interpreter and Prosecutor; Magistrates’ Court, Mthatha: 1988-1989
Legal Policy Counsel & Lobbyist; Women’s Legal Defense Fund, Washington DC
Assistant State Law Adviser; Mthatha: 1991-1993
Pupillage; Johannesburg Bar: 1993
Law Lecturer; University of Transkei: 1993-1995
Practising Advocate; Transkei Bar: 1994-1999
Acting Judge; Cape High Court & Mthatha High Court: 1999
Judge; Mthatha High Court: 2000
Acting Judge; Labour Court, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Bisho High Courts
Acting Judge; Supreme Court of Appeal: 2005
Judge of Appeal; Supreme Court of Appeal: 2006
Acting Judge; Constitutional Court, January to May 2011
Acting Judge; Supreme Court of Namibia: 2008; Appeal Court, Lesotho: 2015
Deputy President, Supreme Court of Appeal: 2015
Acting President, Supreme Court of Appeal: 2016 - 22 May 2017
President, Supreme Court of Appeal: June 2017
Publications, Awards, Honours and Other Activities:
Fulbright Scholarship: 1989-1990
Georgetown University Law & Gender Fellowship Program: 1990
Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship: 2002
Chairperson; South African Law Reform Commission: 2013
Council Member; South African Judicial Education Institute: 2015
Founding Member; South African Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges and its Deputy President in the 2008 -2010 term
Recipient of the South African Women Lawyers Association History & Icon Programme: 2012
Board Member; South African Journal on Human Rights: 2014
Member; Commonwealth Association of Law Reform Commissions: 2015
Patron; Lawyers Against Violence: 2013
