JUSTICE MBUYISELI RUSSEL MADLANGA
AGE AND GENDER: African male, 59 years of age
CURRENT POSITION: Justice of the Constitutional Court, 01 August 2013 todate
QUALIFICATIONS: B Juris Degree (University of Transkei); LLB (Rhodes University);
LLM (cum laude (University of Notre Dame, United of States of America);
Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree (honoris causa) (Walter Sisulu University)
PREVIOUS JUDICIAL POSITIONS:
- Judge, Eastern Cape Division of the High Court, Mthatha (Transkei Division);
- Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, December 1998 – May1999;
- Acting Judge President, Transkei Division of the High Court, June 1999 – August 2000;
- Judge of the Competition Appeal Court, 1999 –2000;
- Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court, August 2000 – May 2001;
- Justice Madlanga resigned as Judge in 2001.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD:
- Part-time law lecturer at the University of Transkei, 1987;
- Full-time law lecturer, University of Transkei, 1988 –1989;
- Practising as an Advocate in the Eastern Cape, Mthatha 1991 –1996;
- Conferred as Senior Counsel,2001;
- Member of the Competition Tribunal, 2003 –2012;
- Deputy Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal, 2009 –2012.
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS / EXTRA-JUDICIAL WORK:
- Appointed by the Minister of Finance at the time, as the Chairperson of the Exchange Control and Income Tax Amnesty Unit, 2003 –2008;
- Chairperson of the Transkei Society of Advocates (now Mthatha Society of Advocates), 2005 –2007;
- Member of the Judicial Service Commission, 2010 – 2012;
- Chief Evidence Leader of the “Marikana Commission of Enquiry”, 2012 to2013;
- Inaugural editor-in-chief of the South African Judicial Education Journal, a journal published under the auspices of the South African Judicial Education Institute,2017;
- Member of the Advisory Boards of the following publications: De Jure, South African Law Journal, and Yearbook of South African Law, 2017 –2020.