Sisi Khampepe

Sisi Khampepe ( born January 8, 1957 in Soweto ) is a South African lawyer and since 2009 Judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Life

After she completed her studies at the University of Zululand in 1980, she studied at the Harvard Law School and graduated there in 1982 with the title of Master of Laws (LLM ) from.

She began her career at the Industrial Aid Society, where she worked as a legal consultant from 1979 to 1980. 1981-1983 Sisi Khampepe was the Legal Resources Centre. In 1983, she was employed at the law firm Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys and founded after being admitted as an attorney ( lawyer) in 1985 his own law firm, which operated under the name SV Khampepe Attorneys. The firm dealt primarily with litigation in the field of labor law, but also represented civil rights organizations and trade unions. Your firm was one of the few black employment law firms in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela struck in 1995 before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where she belonged to the Committee for amnesties since 1996. From 1998 to 1999 she was deputy director of the department of public accusations in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Development. 2000 he was appointed a Judge of the High Court 2004, she was sent to Zimbabwe and 2006 to Uganda as an election observer. From 2005 to 2006 she was appointed by Thabo Mbeki, Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry to clarify the role and mandate of the Directorate of Special Operations ( DSO), the so-called Khampepe Commission. In 2007 she was appointed Judge of the Court of Appeals for labor. In October 2009 she was appointed as Constitutional Court Judge.