Sandile Ngcobo

Sandile Ngcobo [ ŋ | ʱ ɔ ː bɔ ː ] (* March 1, 1953 in Durban ) is a South African lawyer. He was 1999-2011 Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa, between 2009 and 2011 as its Chairman.

Education and professional career

His university education was at the University of Zululand Ngcobo, where his 1975 final BProc. was awarded with a focus on constitutional law, commercial law and accounting. From 1976 to July 1977, he was imprisoned. In September of the same year he accepted a position in the Municipality of Maphumulo. Later he moved to a law firm in Durban, there to complete his practical training and work as a lawyer. His work ranged from doing commercial law over the law of succession and to the criminal law. In 1982 he took over the post of process lawyer at Legal Resources Centre, where he held above all the interests of the non - white population. He represented students whose university entrance had been revoked because of their skin color, in the Supreme Court of South Africa. In 1985, Ngcobo first at a seminar organized by the International Law Institute Advanced Course for African law are using the camera and then took part, sponsored by the Fulbright program, studying at Harvard University in which he graduated in 1986 with a Master of Laws. He put it on constitutional and labor law, and human rights the center of gravity. As of July 1986, he worked for a year as a research assistant for A. Leon Higginbotham, Judge of the Federal Court of Appeal. At the same time he taught at the universities of Harvard, Pennsylvania and Stanford. From August to November 1987, he then worked as a lawyer at a law firm in Philadelphia. In early 1988 he returned to South Africa and took a position at the University of Natal. End of the year he joined a law firm in Durban, before he returned to Philadelphia, where he was responsible for cases from the labor law as an employee of a large firm. In 1992 he started his own business in his home town of Durban as a lawyer. In 1993 he joined as a judge at the Labour Court of KwaZulu in the public service. In 1994, he sat before the Electoral Court of the Independent Electoral Commission. In April 1996 he was appointed temporary judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa and moved in November 1997 as a judge on time to the Court of Appeals for labor. In February 1998 Ngcobo was appointed a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. 1999 Nelson Mandela appointed him full-time judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. From 2009 until his Retirement 2011, he was also Chairman of the Court.

Others

Ngcobo is married with Zandile Ngcobo. With her he has a daughter and two sons.

Awards (selection)

• Honorary Professor of the University of Cape Town ( 1999)