Raymond Zondo

Raymond Mnyamezeli Mlungisi Zondo ( born May 17, 1960 in Ixopo ) is a South African lawyer and since 2012 Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Education and professional career

The schooling received Zondo at the Catholic school in his hometown. This is followed by the study of law at the University of Zululand followed, from which he graduated in 1983. He then moved to the University of Natal, where he was awarded the Bachelor of Laws in 1986. In the context of postgraduate studies, he earned a total of three degrees as Master of Laws from the University of South Africa, namely the field of labor law, business law and patent law. After completing his academic education, he began the practical part of legal education in the Law Firm of Victoria Mxenge in Durban. After the assassination by the secret police unit Vlakplaas he joined the training company and was finally approved in 1989 as a lawyer. He founded together with a partner own law firm in Durban and practiced as a lawyer. In 1991 he was a member of the Goldstone Commission. 1994 Zondo was instrumental in the development of the provisions of the South African labor law. A year later he was elected Mediation and Arbitration as chairman of the newly formed Commission for Conciliation. On February 1, 1997, he first took over the post of Acting Judge of the Labour Court of South Africa before he was ordered there in November 1997 for full-time judge. In April 1999 he moved to the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, before he first returned on August 1, 1999 as a provisional and from 1 May 2000 as a full-time president of the Labour Court. After the end of his term he returned in 2010 to the North Gauteng High Court back. On November 1, 2011, he was appointed to a post as acting judges to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. On August 13, 2012 Jacob Zuma appointed him finally to full-time judge of the Constitutional Court.