List of South Africans - Legal, Police and Military

Legal, Police and Military

See also: List of South African military chiefs
  • Lourens Ackermann, constitutional court judge (born 1934)
  • Ismail Ayob, lawyer (born 1942)
  • George Bizos, lawyer (born 1928)
  • Louis Botha Boer War General, captured Winston Churchill during the Second Boer War, also one of the singnitaries of the Treaty of Vereeniging (1862-1919)
  • Arthur Chaskalson, judge (born 1931)
  • Piet Cronjé, boer general and commander-in-chief of ZAR's military forces (1840–1911)
  • Koos de la Rey, boer general (1847–1914)
  • Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, boer general and acting President of the Orange Free State (1854–1922)
  • Johannes Christiaan de Wet, legal academic (1912–1990)
  • Bram Fischer, advocate QC and political activist (1908–1975)
  • Richard Goldstone, ex-constitutional court judge (born 1938)
  • Harold Hanson, advocate QC (1904–1973)
  • Sydney Kentridge, former advocate of the Supreme Court and Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court (born 1922)
  • Mervyn E. King, former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa and chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance
  • Pius Langa, chief justice of constitutional court (born 1939)
  • Magnus Malan, minister of defence and chief of the South African Defence Force (born 1930)
  • Cecil Margo, judge (1915–2000)
  • Mogoeng Mogoeng, Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1961)
  • Sandile Ngcobo, former Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1953)
  • Bulelani Ngcuka, director of public prosecutions (born 1954)
  • Marmaduke Pattle Highest scoring Allied Air Ace of World War Two (1914-1941)
  • Albie Sachs, justice in constitutional court (born 1935)
  • Jackie Selebi, national commissioner of police (born 1950)
  • Percy Sonn, former head of the Directorate of Special Operations (1947–2007)
  • Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold, Chief Justice of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1899–1977)
  • Percy Yutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial (1911–2002)

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