Mogoeng Mogoeng
Mogoeng Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang ( born January 14, 1961 in Zeerust ) is a South African lawyer and since 2011 Chief Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.
Education and professional career
The Study of Law graduated Mogoeng 1983 at the University of Zululand with a Bachelor of Laws from. After a year of study, he was awarded in 1985 from the University of Durban another bachelor's degree. In March 1986, he took a job as a prosecutor at the Supreme Court of the Province of North West, the North West High Court, where, a position he held until February 1990 before it (similar to the German legal training ) in Johannesburg completed a practical training as a lawyer. In 1989, he completed a master's degree at the University of South Africa. He was also a member of the Industrial Court of South Africa. Mogoeng 1992 was a year of lectures in criminal law and criminal procedure at the University of KwaZulu -Natal. Between 1994 and 1997, Mogoeng was a board member of many South African companies, including MetLife South Africa, and state-owned enterprises. He also worked for the South African Electoral Commission. In 1997 he became a judge of the Supreme Court of the Province of North West, the North West High Court appointed. In 2000 he moved to the Labour Appeal Court of South Africa before it two years later as Chief Judge returned back to the North West High Court. He held until 2009 this position. Then he was appointed judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. To September 8, 2011 Jacob Zuma appointed him as the successor of Sandile Ngcobo to chair judges of the Constitutional Court. His appointment came both nationally as well as internationally to criticism. This criticism led Mogoeng itself on its active engagement in the Christian Winner's Chapel, where he has worked as a lay preacher.
Memberships
- Lawyers for Human Rights
Publications (selection )
- A comparative survey of the South African and Bophuthatswana labor courts. Unisa, Pretoria 1989.