Tholie Madala

Tholakele Hope ( Tholie ) Madala ( born July 13, 1937 in Kokstad, † 25 August 2010) was a South African lawyer and judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Education and professional career

Born in Kokstad, Madala attended St. John 's College in Umtata, which he completed in 1956. This is followed by the study completed at the University of Fort Hare. There, the Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma awarded him to teach at universities in South Africa. He then taught at Lovedale Institute in Alice and in Swaziland, before he began in 1972 to study law at the University of Natal and this graduated with a Bachelor of Laws. There he was involved in the establishment of a student legal services to the needy. From 1980 Madala taught at the Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, until he was admitted in 1982 as a trial attorney. In his law firm, he was responsible for many cases that had been a violation of human rights to the object. Due to this specialization, in 1985 he founded the Prisoners ' Welfare Program, a nonprofit organization that had the financial and legal support of political prisoners to the destination. This organization was Madala to 2008 as president before. Between 1987 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1993 he was also Chairman of the Association of Solicitor of Transkei. In 1994 he was appointed as the first non - White to a judgeship in the Eastern Cape. In September of the same year he was appointed Nelson Mandela as Judge at the newly established Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa. He held until his Retirement 2008 this place. In addition to his professional activities, he remained associated with the formation of young people. He was a member of the Board of Directors about the Walter Sisulu University and was active there especially for the law school.

Others

Madala was with Patricia Alice Ndileka Madala, also a lawyer, married. With her he had three children and was two-time grandfather. He also became active in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from the University of KwaZulu -Natal (1999)

Publications (selection )

• Affirmative action: a South African perspective. In: SMU law review. 52, No. 4, 1999, ISSN 0038-4836, pp. 1539-1548.
• Rule under apartheid and the fledgling democracy in post -apartheid South Africa: the role of the judiciary. In: North Carolina journal of international law and commercial regulation. 26, No. 3, 2001, ISSN 0743-1759, pp. 743-765.