President Jacob Zuma announces new Judicial appointments

President Jacob Zuma has appointed the following judges in terms of section 174(6) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission:

1. Judge Dunstan Mlambo as Judge President of the Labour Court and the Labour Appeal Court.
2. Judge Clement Temba Sangoni as Judge President of the Eastern Cape High Court, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
3. Judge Herbert Qed'usizi Msimang as Judge President of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court.
4. Judge Willem Jacobus Van der Merwe as Deputy Judge President of the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria.
5. Judge Mashangu Monica Leeuw as Judge President of the North West High Court.
6. Judge Simon King Ndlovu as a Judge of the Labour Appeal Court.
7. Judge Lazarus Pule Tlaletsi as a Judge of the Labour Appeal Court.
8. Judge Malcolm John David Wallis as a Judge of the Labour Appeal Court.
9. Mr David Hofmeyer Gush as a Judge of the Labour Court.
10. Advocate Robert George Orford Lagrange as a Judge of the Labour Court.
11. Mr Anton Joubert Steenkamp as a Judge of the Labour Court.
12. Ms Nomatamsanqa Geraldine Beshe as a Judge of the Eastern Cape High Court, Mthatha.
13. Advocate Robert Elliot Griffiths SC as a Judge of the Eastern Cape High Court, Mthatha.
14. Mr Mandela Makaula as a Judge of the Eastern Cape High Court, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
15. Judge Irma Schoeman as a Judge of the Eastern Cape High Court, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
16. Mr John Eldrid Smith as a Judge of the Eastern Cape High Court, Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.
17. Ms Chantel Moira Jennifer Fortuin as a Judge of the Western Cape High Court, Cape Town.
18. Advocate Patric Alfred Lee Gamble SC as a Judge of the Western Cape High Court, Cape Town.
19. Advocate Elizabeth Theron Steyn SC as a Judge of the Western Cape High Court, Cape Town.
20. Advocate Graham Lopes SC as a Judge of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court.
21. Judge Dhayanithie Pillay as a Judge of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court.
22. Advocate Hans-Joachim Adolf Bernhard Fabricius SC as a Judge of the North and South Gauteng High Courts, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
23. Advocate Majake Meshack Mabesele as a Judge of the North and South Gauteng High Courts, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
24. Mr Peter Malose Mabuse as a Judge of the North and South Gauteng High Courts, and Pretoria and Johannesburg.
25. Mr Motsamai Abraham Makume as a Judge of the North and South Gauteng High Courts, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
26. Mr Natvarlal Ranchod as a Judge of the North and South Gauteng High Courts, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
27. Advocate Neil Brock Tuchten SC as a Judge of the North and South Gauteng High Courts, Pretoria and Johannesburg.

The President congratulated the judges on their appointments and wished them well in their new roles.

Statement issued by The Presidency, May 5 2010

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