Pius Langa [SEP] place of birth
Pius Langa
Pius Nkonzo Langa SCOB (25 March 1939 – 24 July 2013) was previously Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the bench in 1994 by Nelson Mandela, he became Deputy Chief Justice in 2001 and was elevated as Chief Justice in 2005 by Thabo Mbeki. He retired in October 2009. He died in 2013, aged 74, following a long illness.
Legal career.
Pius Langa was born on 25 March 1939 in Bushbuckridge, in the then Transvaal Province.
List of judgments of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered in 2008
The table below lists the judgments of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered in 2008.
The members of the court at the start of 2008 were Chief Justice Pius Langa, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, and judges Tholie Madala, Yvonne Mokgoro, Sandile Ngcobo, Bess Nkabinde, Kate O'Regan, Albie Sachs, Thembile Skweyiya, Johann van der Westhuizen and Zak Yacoob. Justice Madala retired in October and Edwin Cameron was appointed in his place.