26 Sep 2022

The Judicial Service Commission has appointed Judge Goemekgabo Tebogo-Maruping Court of Appeal president and two others to the same bench on a non-resident basis.

 An Administration of Justice media release says the new judge president replaces Justice Monametsi Gaongalelwe who retired at the end of April.

   The non-resident justices, Johan Froneman and Bess Nkabinde replace retired justices Eric Leach and Lord Hamilton, who also served on a non-resident basis.

 The release says Justice Tebogo-Maruping holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree obtained from University of Swaziland (with University of Edinburgh, Scotland) in 1984 as well as a Master of Laws (LLM) qualification with the University of London.

 He served in the Attorney General’s Chambers 1984-1985 and as lecture at the University of Botswana 1985-1989.

 It says between 1989 and 1999 he served in the corporate world and in May 1999 he was appointed deputy registrar and master of the High Court, a position he held until August 2002 when he moved to the Industrial Court as registrar.

 Three years later he was elevated to the position of Industrial Court judge and in 2012 he was appointed judge president of the same court, a position he held until his latest appointment.

 About Judge Froneman the release says he attained his LLB from UNISA in 1977 and was admitted as advocate in South Africa the following year.

 He continued his practice as an advocate at the Eastern Cape Bar in Grahamstown from 1980 onwards and 10 years later he obtained senior counsel status.

 Judge Froneman was appointed judge of the Eastern Cape High Court in 1994 and deputy judge president of the newly established Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court two years later, a position he held until 1999.

 He also served as an acting judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal and as an extraordinary professor in public law at the University of Stellenbosch.

 Judge Froneman currently holds a similar position at the University of the Free State, says the release.

 On Judge Nkabinde, the release says she holds an LLB from North West University obtained in 1986.

 She was admitted as an advocate (in the former Bophuthatswana) in 1988 and served as an advocate, North West Bar 1990-1999.

 In 1999 she was appointed judge of the High Court of the Bophuthatswana Provincial Division. She has also acted as chief justice of South Africa and judge of appeal, Supreme Court of Namibia.ENDS