EDUCATION

1975
B Proc (Bachelor of Law) University of Zululand
Empangeni, South Africa
Distinctions in Constitutional Law, Mercantile Law and Accounting

1985
LL B (Bachelor of Laws) University of Natal
Durban, South Africa

1985
Georgetown Law Center (Summer) International Law Institute
Washington, DC, USA
Certificate course United States Legal System

1986
LL M (Master of Laws) Harvard University School of Law
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Concentration: Constitutional, Labour Law, International Legal Process, and International Human Rights

LEGAL EXPERIENCE (SUMMARY)

• Admitted as an attorney in 1981
• Law Clerk to the late The Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, USA 1986-1987
• Admitted as an Advocate in 1988
• Judge, Industrial Court, KwaZulu 1993
• IMSSA Panellist: Mediator and Mediator Community Conflict
• IMSSA Labour Arbitrator and Mediator
• Part-time lecturer on Constitutional Litigation, University of Natal, Durban
• Judge of the High Court - Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division1996- 1999
• Judge of the Labour Appeal Court, 1997-1999
• Judge on the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission1998-1999
• Chairperson of Rules Board for Courts of Law, 1998
• Acting Judge President of Labour Court and Labour Appeal Courts 1999
• Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, 1999 -Present
• Columbia University School of Law, Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law, Fall 2006

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

1977-1978
Magistrates Office
Maphulmulo, South Africa
Clerk of Civil and Criminal Court and later Public
Prosecutor

1978 -1982
K.K Mthiyane and Company
Durban, South Africa
Articled clerk the Associate Attorney

1982 -1985
Legal Resources Centre
Durban, South Africa
Attorney at Law

1986 - 1987
United States Courts of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Law Clerk
The late former Chief Judge, The Honourable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.

1986 - 1987
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Research Associate to the late The Honourable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Researched the role of law in American and South African societies, in particular its use to perpetuate and eradicate social injustice.
Teaching Associate law seminar: "Race Values and the American Legal Process". Assisted in teaching the same course at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools

1987
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Visiting Foreign Attorney

Jan-June-1988
Legal Aid Services Clinic, University of Natal
Durban, South Africa
Acting Director

1988-1996
Practising Advocate
Durban, South Africa
Labour, Employment and Constitutional Law

1989-1992
Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Associate

1993
Industrial Court, KwaZulu
KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Judge

1994
Independent Electoral Commission
Judge

1996-1999
High Court Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division
Judge

1997-1999
Labour Appeal Court
Judge and later Acting Judge President

1998 -1999
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Judge, Amnesty Committee

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1988
University of Natal
Durban, South Africa
Part-time Lecturer
Race Legislation

1995
University of Natal
Durban, South Africa
Part-time lecturer
Constitutional Litigation

Fall 2001
New York University School of Law
New York, New York, USA
Visiting Scholar

Fall 2006
Columbia University School of Law
New York, New York, USA
Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law

Fall 2006
Harvard University School of Law
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Dean David Smith Lecture Series

Sept 2006
Yale University School of Law
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Participant
Seminar on Global Constitutionalism

MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILATIONS

1993-1998
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Natal Equal Opportunities Project
Trustee, Co-ordinator

1998-2004
Rules Board for Courts of Law
Member and later, Chairperson

OTHER EXPERIENCE

1975
Barclays National Bank
Bank Clerk

PUBLICATIONS

"Delivery of justice: agenda for change," The South African Law Journal, Volume 120, Part 4, 2003 at p. 688.

"Truth, justice, and amnesty in South Africa: Sins from the Past and Lessons for the Future. lus Gentium, (Journal of the University of Baltimore Center for International and Comparative Law) Volume 8, Fall 2002, at p. 1.

"The meaning of Article 4(1) of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: a South African perspective", paper presented at an expect meeting held on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) held in Valkenburg (Netherlands) 10-12 October 2002, later published in a book: Temporary Special Measures, Edited by Boerefinjn and Others published by Intersentia, New York.

"De Jure Housing Segregation in the United States and South Africa: The Difficult Pursuit for Racial Justice", with the late The Honourable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. And Prof. F. Michael Higginbotham, published in the University of Illinois Law Review, Volume 1990, Number 4, at p. 763.

Co- authored a chapter on "Introduction to the Employment and Immigration Laws of the US for the Foreign Investor", in a book titled "Business Opportunities in the United States: The Complete Reference Guide to Practices and Procedures" Edited by R.F. Cushman & R. Lawrence Soares, published by Richard D. Irwin Inc., May 1992.

"Administration of Black Townships", Para-Legal Manual (Durban: Legal Resources Centre, 1982)

FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS

1973-1976
Barclays Bank Scholarship

1985-1986
Fulbright Scholarship

1986
Harvard Law School Human Rights Fellowship

AREAS OF INTERESTS

Comparative Constitutional Law; Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights, and International Public Law

PERSONAL

Date of Birth
Born March 1, 1953, Durban, South Africa

Marital
Married to Zandile Ngcobo

Children
One daughter, Nokwanda, and two sons, Ayanda and Manqoba

Detention
1976-1977