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...

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...

enforceable duty of support. The leading dissent was written by Justice Chris Jafta and joined by Justices Nonkosi Mhlantla and Zukisa Tshiqi. This minority...

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...

appoint her, instead confirming the appointments of Johan Froneman, Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe and Mogoeng Mogoeng. In May 2012, Maya was one of four...

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...

accountable for his conduct. In a majority judgment written by Justice Chris Jafta, the court ordered the National Assembly to make rules regulating presidential...

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...

Independent Congress (AIC), member of the National Assembly of South Africa Chris Jafta, judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Andile Jali, footballer...

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...

majority of the court, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Chris Jafta held that the Constitution obligates political parties to act lawfully...

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...

attempted improperly to influence the opinions of Justices Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta. The case comprised two conjoined applications against the National Director...

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...

was joined by Acting Deputy Chief Justice Thembile Skweyiya; Justices Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, and Raymond Zondo; and Acting Justice...

(appointed in 2004, retired in 2013) Nathan Ponnan (appointed in 2004) Chris Jafta (appointed in 2005, elevated in 2009) Dunstan Mlambo (appointed in 2005...

Moseneke, Acting Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla, and Justices Edwin Cameron, Chris Jafta, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Bess Nkabinde, Thembile Skweyiya, Johann van der...

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...

der Westhuizen. Justice Chris Jafta wrote a separate concurring judgment, in which Acting Justice Raymond Zondo joined. Jafta agreed that the appeal should...

judgment, written by Mbuyiseli Madlanga with the concurrence of Justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde; a concurring majority judgment, written by Deputy...

2009 by Hurt AJA and Judges of Appeal Piet Streicher, Kenneth Mthiyane, Chris Jafta, and Mandisa Maya. Writing for the unanimous bench, Streicher agreed...

announced that he had appointed Khampepe and three others – Johan Froneman, Chris Jafta, and Mogoeng Mogoeng – to the Constitutional Court bench, with effect...

Court judge Nkola Motata, in another drunk-driving matter; and justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde, whom, with his friend Selby Mbenenge, he represented...

with Bantubonke Tokota, he represented Constitutional Court justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde at the Judicial Service Commission proceedings which...

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...

Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, and judges Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Steven Majiedt, Nonkosi Mhlantla...

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...

misconduct for attempting to improperly influence the views of Justices Chris Jafta and Bess Nkabinde. Makgoka is a widower and has two children. "Makgoka...

Africa, its Constitutional Court. He was appointed simultaneously with Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe and Johan Froneman. Less than two years later, in mid-2011...

pleased with the seven nominees. Zuma ultimately appointed Johan Froneman, Chris Jafta, Sisi Khampepe and Mogoeng Mogoeng. The four appointments were received...