Thembile Skweyiya (17 June 1939 – 1 September 2015) was brother of

Zola Skweyiya Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya OLS (14 April 1942 – 11 April 2018) was a South African politician who was Minister of Public Service and Administration from 1994 to 1999 and Minister of Social Development from 1999 to 2009. Skweyiya was re-elec ...

and he was a South African

Constitutional Court A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established ...

judge from 2003 to 2014. Skweyiya attended primary school in

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, but later attended boarding school at the Healdtown Institution in the

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where he matriculated in 1959. Justice Skweyiya earned a BSocSci degree from the

University of Natal The University of Natal was a university in the former South African province Natal which later became KwaZulu-Natal. The University of Natal no longer exists as a distinct legal entity, as it was incorporated into the University of KwaZulu-N ...

in 1963 and an LLB degree from the same university in 1967. Skweyiya retired from the bench of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on 6 May 2014 at the age of 73.

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Judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa South African judges 1939 births 2015 deaths {{SouthAfrica-law-bio-stub