• Christopher Nyaole Jafta (born 1959) is a retired South African judge who served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from October 2009 to October...
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    straightforward application of the Commissions Act, 1947, was written by Justice Chris Jafta. However, Zuma violated the court's order the following month, when he...
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    enforceable duty of support. The leading dissent was written by Justice Chris Jafta and joined by Justices Nonkosi Mhlantla and Zukisa Tshiqi. This minority...
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    Froneman (appointed by Jacob Zuma in 2009, retired in 2020) Justice Chris Jafta (appointed by Jacob Zuma in 2009, retired in 2021) Justice Sisi Khampepe...
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    appoint her, instead confirming the appointments of Johan Froneman, Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe and Mogoeng Mogoeng. In May 2012, Maya was one of four...
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    accountable for his conduct. In a majority judgment written by Justice Chris Jafta, the court ordered the National Assembly to make rules regulating presidential...
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    effect from September 2012 and is now considered a key member, with Chris Jafta, of the Court's conservative wing. In June 2017, President Jacob Zuma...
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  • and then took it to the Constitutional Court. In April 2016, Justice Chris Jafta found in Makate's favour and against Vodacom, overturning both judgements...
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  • and then took it to the Constitutional Court. In April 2016 Justice Chris Jafta found in Makate's favour and against Vodacom, overturning both judgements...
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  • Independent Congress (AIC), member of the National Assembly of South Africa Chris Jafta, judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Andile Jali, footballer...
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    majority of the court, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Chris Jafta held that the Constitution obligates political parties to act lawfully...
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    of insolvency practitioners by the Master of the High Court. Justice Chris Jafta wrote the court's majority judgment and a three-person minority joined...
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    attempted improperly to influence the opinions of Justices Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta. The case comprised two conjoined applications against the National Director...
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    was joined by Acting Deputy Chief Justice Thembile Skweyiya; Justices Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, and Raymond Zondo; and Acting Justice...
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    became the President of South Africa in 2009. Justices Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta alleged that Hlophe had attempted to sway their judgment in Zuma's favour...
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    (appointed in 2004, retired in 2013) Nathan Ponnan (appointed in 2004) Chris Jafta (appointed in 2005, elevated in 2009) Dunstan Mlambo (appointed in 2005...
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  • Moseneke, Acting Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla, and Justices Edwin Cameron, Chris Jafta, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Bess Nkabinde, Thembile Skweyiya, Johann van der...
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    other legal issues, it was split seven to two on this remedy; Justice Chris Jafta wrote a partly dissenting judgment which argued that, in ordering the...
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    der Westhuizen. Justice Chris Jafta wrote a separate concurring judgment, in which Acting Justice Raymond Zondo joined. Jafta agreed that the appeal should...
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    judgment, written by Mbuyiseli Madlanga with the concurrence of Justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde; a concurring majority judgment, written by Deputy...
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    2009 by Hurt AJA and Judges of Appeal Piet Streicher, Kenneth Mthiyane, Chris Jafta, and Mandisa Maya. Writing for the unanimous bench, Streicher agreed...
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  • announced that he had appointed Khampepe and three others – Johan Froneman, Chris Jafta, and Mogoeng Mogoeng – to the Constitutional Court bench, with effect...
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  • Court judge Nkola Motata, in another drunk-driving matter; and justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde, whom, with his friend Selby Mbenenge, he represented...
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  • with Bantubonke Tokota, he represented Constitutional Court justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde at the Judicial Service Commission proceedings which...
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  • President Thabo Mbeki in November 2004, alongside Dunstan Mlambo and Chris Jafta. He was often noted for his judgements on open justice matters and freedom...
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  • Two members of the bench, Justice Bess Nkabinde and Acting Justice Chris Jafta, alleged that Hlophe had met with them personally and attempted to persuade...
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  • Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, and judges Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Steven Majiedt, Nonkosi Mhlantla...
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  • misconduct for attempting to improperly influence the views of Justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde. Makgoka is a widower and has two children. "Makgoka...
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    Africa, its Constitutional Court. He was appointed simultaneously with Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe and Johan Froneman. Less than two years later, in mid-2011...
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  • pleased with the seven nominees. Zuma ultimately appointed Johan Froneman, Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe and Mogoeng Mogoeng. The four appointments were received...
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