STATEMENT ON APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES TO THE HIGH COURT

19 April 2002

President Thabo Mbeki today (Thursday, 18 April 2002) accepted the recommendations of the Judicial Services Commission to appoint the following persons as Judges to the various divisions of the High Court of South Africa:

• Supreme Court of Appeal
  Mr Justice Johannes Hendrik Conradie
• Bophuthatswana Division
  No recommendations for this division
• Cape Provincial Division
  Prof Hendrik Johannes Erasmus
• Northern Cape Provincial Division
  Adv Hendrik Johannes Lacock SC
• Eastern Cape Provincial Division
  Ms Nonkosi Zoliswa Mhlantla
• Transvaal Provincial Division
  Adv Ebenhaezer Jordaan SC
  Adv Moosajee Patel SC
• Transkei Division
  Adv Lusindiso Philemon Pakade
• Competition Appeal Court
  Justice Selwyn Selikowitz

The President takes this opportunity to congratulate all the candidates on their appointment and wishes them well in serving South Africa's constitutional democracy.

Issued by the Presidency