Global InformationPhineas Mojapelo information
Phineas Mojapelo | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Judge President of the Gauteng High Court | |
| In office 1 January 2005 – 14 June 2020 | |
| Appointed by | Thabo Mbeki |
| President | Bernard Ngoepe Dunstan Mlambo |
| Division | North Gauteng |
| Succeeded by | Roland Sutherland |
| Judge of the High Court | |
| In office 27 January 2003 – 14 June 2020 | |
| Appointed by | Thabo Mbeki |
| Division | Gauteng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Phineas Mathale Deon Mojapelo 11 June 1951 Polokwane, Transvaal Union of South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of the North |
Phineas Mathale Deon Mojapelo (born 11 June 1951) is a South African retired judge of the High Court of South Africa. He was the Deputy Judge President of the South Gauteng Division from January 2005 to June 2020, and he joined the bench in January 2003 as a puisne judge of the North Gauteng Division. He was also an acting judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2017.
Born in Polokwane, Limpopo, Mojapelo began his legal career as an attorney in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, where he ran a prominent law firm with Mathews Phosa and Ephraim Makgoba. He was national president of the Black Lawyers Association from 1991 to 1995, and he is also a former member of the Judicial Service Commission and South African Law Reform Commission.