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    Mahube Molemela

    South African judge

    Mahube Betty Molemela (née Eister; born 18 March 1965) is a South African judge who has been the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal since 1 June 2023.

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    • Before her appointment to the Supreme Court in June 2018, she was the first woman Judge President of the Free State High Court from 2015 to 2018. A former attorney, she was appointed to the bench in the Free State in July 2008.

    Early life and education

    Molemela was born on 18 March 1965 in Bloemfontein in the former Orange Free State, now the Free State.[1] She matriculated in 1981 at Albert Moroka High School in Thaba Nchu outside Bloemfontein,[2] and she subsequently enrolled at the University of Fort Hare, where she completed her BA and BProc degrees.[1] She later completed an LLB and an LLM in mercantile law from the University of the Free State.[1]

    Career as an attorney

    Molemela began her legal career in 1987 as a prosecutor at t