Dunstan Mlambo
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The Honourable Dunstan Mlambo |
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| Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa | |
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Assumed office 1 November 2012 |
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| Nominated by | Judicial Service Commission |
| Appointed by | President Jacob Zuma |
| Preceded by | Bernard Ngoepe |
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| Born | c. 1960 (age 56–57) Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa |
| Spouse(s) | Cynthia Ramashela |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of the North |
| Occupation | Judge |
| Profession | Jurist |
Dunstan Mlambo (born c. 1960) is Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa. Since 2002 he has also served as the chairperson of Legal Aid South Africa which provides legal aid to those who cannot afford it, and is a trustee of the Legal Resources Centre public interest law clinic.
Mlambo was born in Bushbuckridge and grew up in Barberton in Mpumalanga. His father was an apolitical civil servant and his uncle Johnson Mlambo was a political prisoner on Robben Island. After matriculating from Thembeka High School in the Kanyamazane township of Nelspruit in 1979, he studied law at the University of the North where he completed his B.Proc. degree in 1983. In 1987 he was admitted to the fellowship programme of the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg, targeted at black law graduates, and in 1990 he was admitted as an attorney.
Mlambo was appointed as an acting judge in the Labour Court and a judge in the Labour Appeal Court in 1997. He subsequently served as a judge in the South Gauteng High Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal. Prior to his appointment as High Court Judge President, he was Judge President of the Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court. During his term of office as Judge President of the Labour Court, he was critical of the practice of labour brokering which deprives employees of labour law protection.
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