Dikgang Moseneke

Dikgang Ernest Moseneke ( born December 20, 1947 in Pretoria) is a South African lawyer and since 2005 Deputy Presiding Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Education and professional career

Moseneke was born the eldest of four children of the teacher Samuel John Sedise Moseneke and his wife Mabel Karabo in Pretoria. There he attended primary and secondary school. At the age of 15, he was arrested for protesting against apartheid and sentenced to ten years in prison. He spent most of his imprisonment on Robben Iceland, where he played with the football team in the Makana Football Association. In addition, he gained while his secondary education and studied English and political science. Later, the academic degree of Bachelor of Laws, he was awarded by the University of South Africa. After his release, he began his professional career working in the legal department of KlagbrunsInc. Before he was admitted to the bar in 1978 and practiced in a law firm in Pretoria. From 1983 he worked as a trial lawyer ( advocat ) in Johannesburg. As a member of a technical committee he was instrumental in the drafting of the interim constitution in 1993. The following year he was elected deputy chairman of the South African Electoral Commission. Between 1995 and 2001 Moseneke was on the board of various companies, such as the Telkom South Africa and MetLife. In November 2001 he was appointed Judge of the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. On November 29, 2002, President Thabo Mbeki appointed him a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. There he takes since June 2005, the true position of Deputy President of the Court. In 2006 he replaced Richard Goldstone from as Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand.

Memberships and Awards (selection)

• Founding member of the Black Lawyers' Association
• Deputy Chairman of the Nelson Mandela Children 's Fund
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Limpopo
• Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Tshwane
• Honorary doctorate from the City University of New York

Publications (selection )

• Establishing social consensus on the shifting boundaries in between judicial and executive functions of state: lessons from the recent past. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth 2009, ( Griffiths and Victoria Mxenge memorial lecture).
• Transformative constitutionalism: its implications for the law of contract. In: Stellenbosch Law Review. 20, No. 1, 2009 ISSN 1016-4359, pp. 3-13.
• Striking a balance in between the wants of the people and the supremacy of the Constitution: notes. In: South African Law Journal International. 129, No. 1, 2012 ISSN 0038-2388, pp. 9-22.