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Shane Kgoele
Anna Maleshane Kgoele (born 18 June 1964), also spelled Annah Malefsane Kgoele, is a South African judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal. She joined the appellate court in December 2023 after 14 years in the High Court of South Africa. From 2014 to 2018, she was the president of the South African chapter of the International Association of Women Judges. Born in Johannesburg, Kgoele began her career as a prosecutor in Taung, North West and served as a magistrate between 1991 and 2009. Thereafter she joined the bench, serving in the North West High Court from November 2009 to October 2019 and then in the Mpumalanga High Court from October 2019 to December 2023. President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed her to the Supreme Court of Appeal with effect from 1 December 2023. Early life and education Kgoele was born on 18 June 1964 in Johannesburg. She matriculated at Alfred Maubane High School in Hammanskraal and went on to the University of the North, where she completed a BProc in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Court Of South Africa
The High Court of South Africa is a superior court of law in South Africa. It is divided into nine provinces of South Africa, provincial divisions, some of which sit in more than one location. Each High Court division has general jurisdiction over a defined geographical area in which it is situated. The decisions of a division are binding on magistrates' court (South Africa), magistrates' courts within its area of jurisdiction. The High Court has jurisdiction over all matters, but it usually only hears civil matters involving more than 400,000 South African rand, rand, and serious criminal cases. It also hears any appeals or reviews from magistrates' courts and other lower courts. The court and its divisions are constituted in their current form by the Superior Courts Act, 2013. They replaced the previous separate High Courts, which had in 1997 replaced the provincial and local divisions of the former Supreme Court of South Africa and the supreme courts of the TBVC states ("Bantu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hammanskraal
Hammanskraal is a trans-provincial region anchored in northern Gauteng province, South Africa. The region consists of multiple residential, industrial, and commercial areas in a decentralized settlement pattern. History The historical roots of the region trace back to the 13th century, the area around Gauteng province was initially occupied by the Batswana.Nechama Brodie The Joburg Book 2014 ed Page 20 The Batswana Chief Mokgatla dominated the area to the north of what is today the Gauteng province and his descendants are known as the Bakgatla. To this day, nearly half of the population of the Hammanskraal region are descendants of the Batswana nation. According to oral narration, the Amandebele A Lebello settled the area around Hammanskaal close to Ramotse in the 1800s. The Amandebele originated in the eastern part of the country and now form an integral part of the region's community. The Great Trek that took place in the first half of the 19th century saw the inward movemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane
Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane (born 19 August 1965) is a South African judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal. She joined the appellate court in December 2023 after 13 years in the Gauteng High Court. Before her appointment to the bench in October 2010, she practiced as an advocate of the High Court in Johannesburg; she was involved in constitutional litigation, including through the Legal Resources Centre, and also served a stint in corporate advisory at Werksmans. The Judicial Service Commission has twice nominated Kathree-Setiloane for appointment to the Constitutional Court of South Africa, where she was an acting justice in 2017 and where she clerked for Justice Yvonne Mokgoro in 1995. Early life and education Kathree-Setiloane was born on 19 August 1965 in Durban in the former Natal Province. She attended the University of Natal, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1988 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1991; while a student, she was a research assistant at the university' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xola Petse
Xola Mlungisi Petse (born 10 July 1954) is a retired South African judge who was the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (South Africa), Supreme Court of Appeal between 2019 and 2024. A former attorney, he joined the Supreme Court as a puisne judge in June 2012. Before that, he was a judge of the Eastern Cape High Court from July 2005 to May 2012. Early life and career Petse was born on 10 July 1954 in Qokolweni, a village in Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape. After matriculating at Bensonvale High School in Sterkspruit in 1972, he worked for two years as a clerk in the Department of Justice of the Transkei bantustan. He resigned in 1975 in order to study law at the University of Fort Hare, where he completed a BProc in 1978. Later, in 1989, he obtained an LLB from the University of Natal's Pietermaritzburg campus. Between 1982 and 2005, Petse practised as an Attorneys in South Africa, attorney in the Eastern Cape. He was one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melrose, Johannesburg
Melrose includes several suburbs of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Melrose is a developing up-market suburb. History The suburb has it origins when Henry Brown Marshall purchased land in the north of Johannesburg in 1893. Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg, called ''Syferfontein''. It was called the Melrose Estate of 713 acres and at the time was 9.7km north of the central business district. He built his home there and planted trees on the land. The suburb was laid out in 1902. Melrose Arch The Melrose Arch mixed-use development Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions ... is located in Melros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segopotje Mphahlele
Segopotje Sheila Mphahlele (born August 1968) is a South African judge who is currently serving as the Judge President of the Mpumalanga High Court. Formerly an attorney and insolvency practitioner, she has been a judge of the High Court of South Africa since December 2013. Born in Pretoria, Mphahlele was appointed to the Gauteng Division of the High Court in 2013, but she transferred to the Mpumalanga Division when it was established in 2019. She was appointed as the division's inaugural Deputy Judge President in 2021 and became its first female Judge President in 2023, in both cases at the appointment of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Early life and education Mphahlele was born in August 1968 in Mamelodi outside Pretoria. She attended the University of the North, where she completed a BProc in 1991 and an LLB in 1993. Legal career She began her legal career in 1994 as a claims handler at the Road Accident Fund, and between 1995 and 1996, she served her articles of clerkshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross-examination
In law, cross-examination is the interrogation of a witness by one's opponent. It is preceded by direct examination (known as examination-in-chief in Law of the Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the Law of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Australian legal system, Australia, Law of Canada, Canada, Law of South Africa, South Africa, Law of India, India and Law of Pakistan, Pakistan) and may be followed by a Redirect examination, redirect (known as re-examination in the aforementioned countries). A redirect examination, performed by the attorney or pro se individual who performed the direct examination, clarifies the witness' testimony provided during cross-examination including any subject matter raised during cross-examination but not discussed during direct examination. Recross examination addresses the witness' testimony discussed in redirect by the opponent. Depending on the judge's discretion, opponents are allowed multiple opportunities to redirect and recross examine witnesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogoeng Mogoeng
Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang Mogoeng (born 14 January 1961) is a South African jurist who served as the Chief Justice of South Africa from 8 September 2011 until his retirement on 11 October 2021. Early life Mogoeng was born on 14 January 1961 in Goo-Mokgatha ( Koffiekraal) village near Zeerust in the North West Province. His father was a miner and his mother a domestic worker. Mogoeng became politically active at high school, from which he was briefly suspended for organising a memorial to the victims of the Soweto uprising. Mogoeng received a B.Juris in 1983 from the University of Zululand and a Bachelor of Laws in 1985 from the University of Natal. There he had been active in the Azanian Students' Movement during a time of grave repression by the SADF. From 1985 he worked for the government of Bophuthatswana as a High Court prosecutor in Mahikeng; though working for a bantustan was stigmatised, Mogoeng was obliged to do so for five years to repay his government bursary. He obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Leeuw
Mashangu Monica Leeuw (; born 29 July 1952) is a retired South African judge who was Judge President of the North West High Court from 2010 to 2022. She was the first woman to serve as a judge president in the High Court of South Africa. Formerly a prosecutor in Bophuthatswana and later an advocate in the North West, Leeuw was appointed to the bench in 1999 and retired in 2022. She was an acting judge in the Constitutional Court in 2014. Early life and career Leeuw was born on 29 July 1952 in Lady Selborne, a settlement in Pretoria in the former Transvaal. She matriculated in 1970 at Hwiti High School in Pietersburg and completed her BProc at the University of the North in 1976. Later, a decade into her legal career in 1987, she completed an LLB at the University of Bophuthatswana. Legal career Leeuw began her legal career as a legal assistant at the Ga-Rankuwa Magistrate's Court until, in 1978, she began work as a public prosecutor at the Mmabatho Magistrate's Court ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judicial Service Commission (South Africa)
The Judicial Service Commission is a body specially constituted by the South African Constitution to recommend persons for appointment to the judiciary of South Africa. History In apartheid South Africa, judges were appointed by the President, usually on the direction of the Minister of Justice, and behind closed doors. During the constitutional negotiations, it was decided that the President's power should be moderated by a special body relatively insulated from partisan interests. It was to be composed of a number of politicians, from both the ruling party and the opposition, and non-politicians, and would conduct public interviews. The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was therefore created by the Interim Constitution. The JSC is now regulated by section 178 of the final Constitution (and by the Judicial Service Commission Act 9 of 1994). Composition In terms of section 178(1) of the Constitution, the JSC is usually composed of 25 members. This membership is divided more o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahikeng, North-West Province
Mahikeng (Tswana for "Place of Rocks"), formerly known as Mafikeng and alternatively known as Mafeking (, ), is the capital city of the North West province of South Africa. Close to South Africa's border with Botswana, Mafikeng is northeast of Cape Town and west of Johannesburg. In 2001 it had a population of 49,300. In 2007 Mafikeng was reported to have a population of 250,000, of which the CBD constituted between 69,000 and 75,000. It is built on the open veld at an elevation of , by the banks of the Upper Molopo River. The Madibi goldfields are some south of the town. History Establishment Molema's town was founded by Molema Tawana (c. 1822 – January 1882). In 1857 Molema led an advance guard to scout out the area along the Molopo River. This was a familiar area as they had previously lived in nearby Khunwana. Molema settled a town known in its early years as "Molema's town", while the main body of the Barolong under Montshiwa followed. But Montshiwa did not feel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamelodi
Mamelodi is a township northeast of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. A part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, it was set up by the then apartheid government in 1953. Etymology"Mamelodi" is the name derived from the Sepedi word with the prefix being "ma" meaning mother, and the suffix "melodi" meaning melodies. Its meaning can be translated to mean ''Mother of Melodies''. History The township was established when 16 houses were built on the farm Vlakfontein in June 1953 and later the name changed to Mamelodi. The Group Areas Act designated Mamelodi as a blacks-only area, though this became moot with the fall of |
