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Mbuyiseli Madlanga was born on 27 March, 1962 in Mount Frere, Cape Province, is a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Discover Mbuyiseli Madlanga's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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1962

Mbuyiseli Russel Madlanga (born 27 March 1962) is a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Madlanga was born in 1962 in Njijini village, Mount Frere, to a family of the amaBhaca.

He attended Mariazell High School in Matatiele.

1977

He was on the bench in Mohamed v President of the Republic of South Africa, which held that the South African government may not extradite a suspect who may face the death penalty unless it receives an assurance it will not be imposed; Prince v President, Cape Law Society, which upheld a law criminalising the use of marijuana, even for religious reasons; Carmichele v Minister of Safety and Security; Minister of Public Works v Kyalami Ridge Environmental Association; and S v Mamabolo. Madlanga authored S v Steyn, which declared unconstitutional provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 that removed an accused person's automatic right of appeal against a magistrate's court conviction.

1981

His father, a teacher, encouraged him to apply for a bursary to read law at the University of Transkei, where he completed a BJuris in 1981 in an atmosphere of growing social unrest.

During his final year he began working in a magistrate's office, though he was close friends with African National Congress activists under investigation by his colleagues.

1985

In 1985 he moved to Grahamstown, then in a state of "complete chaos", and completed an LLB at Rhodes University the following year.

1987

From 1987 to 1989 he worked as a law lecturer at the University of Transkei, teaching customary law, the law of delict and the law of contract.

1990

He won a scholarship to attend the University of Notre Dame and completed his LLM there in 1990.

For the next six months he worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Amnesty International, where he briefly met Nelson Mandela after his release from prison.

1991

In 1991, amid the negotiations to end apartheid, Madlanga returned to South Africa and began practice as an advocate in Mthatha.

His admission to the Bar was moved by his close friend and mentor Tholie Madala; Sandile Ngcobo, with whom Madlanga would also later work at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, was a colleague and friend of both.

1996

Formerly an advocate in the Eastern Cape, he first served as a judge in the Transkei Division between 1996 and 2001.

On 1 September 1996, Madlanga was appointed to the bench of the Transkei Division of the High Court (now the Mthatha seat of the Eastern Cape Division).

He later became its acting Judge President.

1998

From 1998 to 1999, he was an acting judge on the Supreme Court of Appeal.

The following year he became an acting judge of the Constitutional Court upon Arthur Chaskalson's invitation.

The Judicial Service Commission questioned him on his 1998 judgment in Bangindawo v Head of the Nyanda Regional Authority, in which he had held controversially that there was "no reason whatsoever for the imposition of the western conception of the notions of judicial impartiality and independence in the African customary law setting".

Madlanga admitted at the interview that this judgment was wrong.

Madlanga's first judgment for the Constitutional Court was Gaertner v Minister of Finance, on the right to privacy and search and seizure.

2001

In 2001, Madlanga resigned from the bench, saying the salary was insufficient to support his family, and returned to private practice.

He appeared for South Africa at the International Court of Justice in the case regarding the Israeli West Bank barrier.

He also served as evidence leader at the commission of inquiry into the fitness of Bheki Cele to hold office as national police commissioner, and at the Farlam Commission investigating the Marikana miners' strike.

2010

His appointment had been widely expected, especially after he impressed at his interview before the Judicial Service Commission (on which Madlanga had served since 2010), though some felt a woman ought to have been appointed.

2013

He joined the bench on 1 August 2013 on the appointment of President Jacob Zuma.

On 1 August 2013, Madlanga was appointed permanently to the Constitutional Court, replacing Zak Yacoob.

2014

In March 2014, he wrote a 94-paragraph judgment dismissing Uruguayan businessman Gaston Savoi's challenge to his prosecution on charges of corruptly procuring a contract from the KwaZulu-Natal government.

A year later, Madlanga delivered the controversial main judgment in Paulsen v Slip Knot, which removes an exception to the in duplum rule.

This judgment was described as "consumer friendly", but marked a "sea change" for South African banking practice, and was strongly criticised extra-curially by Malcolm Wallis.

Madlanga's next judgment for the Court was DE v RH, which abrogated the action for adultery.

2015

Madlanga was one of the authors of the majority judgment in the 2015 My Vote Counts v Speaker, which was widely condemned.

On 4 October 2021, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that Madlanga was one of eight nominees under consideration to succeed Mogoeng Mogoeng as Chief Justice of South Africa.

Madlanga's wife is Nkosisi Monica Madlanga (née Nkenkana).

He has six children.