Bongani Majola

Bongani Majola is the Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Before joining the ICTR, Bongani Majola was the Executive Director of the Legal Resources Center, a non-profit public interest law firm which represents the poor and uses litigation to strengthen constitutional rights through the decisions of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Among others, he was involved in the Treatment Action Campaign trial which sought to give meaning to the constitutional provisions dealing with the right of access by poor people to medical care.
Bongani Majola was also professor and dean of the faculty of law at the University of the North in the Limpopo province in South Africa. During part of that time, he was a member of the committee of experts advising members of the Constitutional Assembly which drew the current South African Constitution. Before going into the academic world, Mr. Majola had practiced law as a presiding judicial officer (magistrate) in the lower courts and spent years prosecuting in those courts. He also has experience as a court interpreter. For many years he sat with Judges, as an assessor, in many criminal trials in the High Courts of South Africa trying a variety of offences, including murder, robbery, rape and other serious crimes.
Academically, Bongani Majola holds an LLM degree from Harvard University in the United States of America, in addition to the Bachelor of Laws and B. Iuris degrees from the University of Zululand in South Africa. He was a visiting professor at the School of Advance International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and a research fellow at Yale University in 1993.

Bongani Majola

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