The table below lists the judgments of the
Constitutional Court of South Africa
The Constitutional Court of South Africa is a supreme court, supreme constitutional court established by the Constitution of South Africa, and is the apex court in the South African judicial system, with general jurisdiction.
The Court was fi ...
delivered in 2009.
The members of the court at the start of 2009 were
Chief Justice Pius Langa
Pius Nkonzo Langa Order of the Baobab, SCOB (25 March 1939 – 24 July 2013) was Chief Justice of South Africa, serving on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Constitutional Court. He was appointed to the bench in 1994 by Nelson Mandela, h ...
,
Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
Dikgang Ernest Moseneke (born 20 December 1947) is a South African judge and former Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa.
Biography
Moseneke was born in Pretoria and went to school there. He joined the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) at the ag ...
, and judges
Edwin Cameron,
Yvonne Mokgoro
Yvonne Mokgoro (born 19 October 1950) is a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and wife to Job Mokgoro.
Career
Mokgoro was appointed to the bench in 1994 by Nelson Mandela. Mokgoro is a board member of the Centre for Huma ...
,
Sandile Ngcobo,
Bess Nkabinde,
Kate O'Regan
Catherine "Kate" O'Regan (born 17 September 1957) is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 2013 to 2014 she was a commissioner of the Khayelitsha Commission and is now the inaugura ...
,
Albie Sachs,
Thembile Skweyiya,
Johann van der Westhuizen
Johann van der Westhuizen (born 26 May 1952 in Windhoek, South West Africa (now Namibia) is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Before his judicial appointment, he was a professor at the University of Pretoria Faculty of L ...
and
Zak Yacoob. Chief Justice Langa and Justices Mokgoro, O'Regan and Sachs retired in October 2009, as they were all founding members of the court whose terms of office expired. They were replaced by the appointment of
Johan Froneman
Johan Coenraad Froneman, SC (born 10 February 1953) is a South African former judge who served as a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Early life
Froneman grew up in Cathcart and was educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein, ...
,
Chris Jafta,
Sisi Khampepe
Sisi Virginia Khampepe (born 8 January 1957) is a retired judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Background
Khampepe was born in Soweto. She obtained her B Proc from the University of Zululand and her LLM degree at Harvard Law School ...
and
Mogoeng Mogoeng
Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang Mogoeng (born 14 January 1961) is a South African jurist who served as the Chief Justice of South Africa from 8 September 2011 until his retirement on 11 October 2021.
Early life
Mogoeng was born on 14 January 1961 in ...
, and Justice Ngcobo was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.
References
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2009
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2009 in South African case law