Mbuyiseli Madlanga (born 27 March 1962) is a South African judge who was appointed as Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa on 1 August 2013.
Mbuyiseli Madlanga Age
He was born on March 27, 1962, in Njijini village, Mount Frere, Cape Province, South Africa. Madlanga is 62 years old as of 2024, and he celebrates his birthday on March 27th every year.
Mbuyiseli Madlanga Education
He attended Mariazell High School in Matatiele. He went on to read law at the University of Transkei, obtaining a BJuris in 1981.
He obtained an LLB at Rhodes University in 1986 and completed his LLM at the University of Notre Dame in 1990.
Mbuyiseli Madlanga Wife
Madlanga is married to Nkosisi Monica Madlanga. They are blessed with six children.
Mbuyiseli Madlanga Career
After graduating, he lectured part-time in the Law Faculty of Unitra whilst working for the Department of Justice to fulfill his contractual obligations under a government bursary that had funded his LLB studies. He later lectured full-time at Unitra for two years. He proceeded to do an LLM in Human Rights and Constitutional Law, which he received cum laude at the University of Notre Dame in the USA.
He interned at the Washington, DC office of Amnesty International. On his return, he did pupillage at the Johannesburg Bar.On completion, he opened practice at the Mthatha Bar.
At the age of 34, he was appointed as a Judge of the Mthatha High Court, becoming South Africa’s youngest judge at the time. Within only three years of this appointment, he was appointed Acting Judge of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. He was then appointed – this time on a permanent basis, as a Judge of Appeal in the Competition Appeal Court. He continued acting on the Supreme Court of Appeal Bench because the Competition Appeal Court was new and had yet to commence functioning.
His acting appointment at the Supreme Court of Appeal – which was for a year – was cut short as he was then appointed to act as the Judge President of the Mthatha High Court. Whilst holding that position, he received yet another appointment; this time as an Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
Personal circumstances forced him to resign from the Judiciary. He returned to the Bar as senior counsel, practising in Mthatha and Johannesburg. His practice took off immediately and he appeared in virtually all the High Courts in the country and in the Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court. Notably, he received a brief to represent the Republic of South Africa at the International Court of Justice at The Hague (Den Haag) in the Netherlands.
On 1 August 2013, Madlanga was appointed permanently to the Constitutional Court, replacing Zak Yacoob.
Mbuyiseli Madlanga Net Worth
Madlanga has an estimated net worth of $1 million which he has earned from his successful legal career.
