Not to be confused with South African activist and politician Ismail Mohamed (1930–2013).
Ismail Mahomed
SCOB
Chief Justice of South Africa
In office 1 January 1997 – 17 June 2000
Appointed by
Nelson Mandela
Deputy
Hennie van Heerden
Preceded by
Michael Corbett
Succeeded by
Arthur Chaskalson
Deputy President of the Constitutional Court
In office 14 February 1995 – 31 December 1996
Appointed by
Nelson Mandela
President
Arthur Chaskalson
Preceded by
Court established
Succeeded by
Pius Langa
Judge of the Supreme Court
In office 11 August 1991 – 13 February 1995
Appointed by
F. W. de Klerk
Personal details
Born
(1931-07-05)5 July 1931 Pretoria, Union of South Africa
Died
17 June 2000(2000-06-17) (aged 68) Johannesburg, South Africa
Spouse
Hawo Mahomed
Alma mater
Witwatersrand University
Ismail Mahomed SCOB SC (5 July 1931 – 17 June 2000) was a South African lawyer and jurist who served as the first black Chief Justice of South Africa from January 1997 until his death in June 2000. He was also the Chief Justice of Namibia from 1992 to 1999 and the inaugural Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1995 to 1996.
Born in Pretoria to Indian immigrant parents, Mahomed practiced as an advocate in Johannesburg during apartheid, becoming reputed as one of South Africa's foremost litigators in civil rights law and administrative law. In 1974, he became the first black advocate to take silk in South Africa. Although apartheid precluded him from judicial appointment in South Africa, he was a judge of appeal in neighbouring Swaziland from 1979 and in neighbouring Lesotho from 1982. He was the co-chairperson of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa in 1991.
Also in 1991, as the negotiations to end apartheid accelerated, Mahomed was appointed as the first black judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. He was elevated to the Constitutional Court when it was established in 1995, but after two years he returned to the Supreme Court's Appellate Division, newly re-constituted as the Supreme Court of Appeal. His appointment as Chief Justice of the new court, spearheaded by President Nelson Mandela, was a point of controversy among the white legal establishment, but he led the appellate court until his death from pancreatic cancer.
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President: Thabo Mbeki. Deputy President: Jacob Zuma. Chief Justice: IsmailMahomed then vacant. The Cabinet, together with the President and the Deputy...
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defended him at the hearing. Vernon Berrange led the defence case and IsmailMahomed (who later became Chief Justice in the new South Africa) and Denis Kuny...
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