‘A monumental loss of a leading voice’: SA mourns former ConCourt Justice Yvonne Mokgoro

Mokgoro, a pioneering member of the first ConCourt bench in democratic South Africa and its first black woman judge, passed away in a Johannesburg hospital on Thursday afternoon. Her death came a year after she was involved in a car accident near Kimberley in the Northern Cape in April last year. During her hospitalisation, she experienced several health setbacks, forcing her to withdraw from public engagements.

In addition, Mokgoro devoted much time and energy towards nurturing the next generation of lawyers and leaders, both as a board member of the Mandela-Rhodes Trust and through her involvement in teaching around the world. In 2015, she was inducted as a Member of the Order of the Baobab in Bronze for her outstanding contribution in the legal field and administration of justice in South Africa.

We express our deepest condolences to Justice Yvonne Mokgoro’s family, the legal fraternity, and the People of South Africa. Justice Mokgoro will be remembered as the first black female judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a leading voice within the legal and…

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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