South Africa has appointed its first female chief justice. President Cyril Ramaphosa named Mandisa Maya, the current deputy chief justice, as the country’s most senior judge on Thursday. Her term is due to start on Sept. 1, when she will replace Chief Justice Raymond Zondo as the head of the apex Constitutional Court. Zondo is retiring.
FILE - A man walks downstairs outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, South Africa , on May 15, 2017. President Cyril Ramaphosa named Mandisa Maya, the current deputy chief justice, as the country’s new senior judge. Her term is due to start on Sept. 1. named Mandisa Maya, the current deputy chief justice, as the country’s new most senior judge. Her term is due to start on Sept. 1, when she will replace, before her promotion to the Constitutional Court.
Ramaphosa nominated Maya for chief justice in February and she was interviewed by the Judicial Services Commission in May. The commission recommended her and noted her appointment “would be a significant milestone for the country,” Ramaphosa said in a statement. Maya grew up in a rural part of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. She won a Fulbright Scholarship in 1989 to do a Master’s in law at Duke University in the United States, an incredibly rare achievement for a young Black woman during theA year has passed since Niger’s dramatic coup.
South Africa has had all-male chief justices since the post was created in 1910 when it was still a British colony. Maya will be the eighth chief justice since South Africa became a democracy with the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule in 1994.
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