South Africa has appointed its first female chief justice.
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.
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 the
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