Regular Members

HON. DR. LUIS ANTONIO MONDLANE (MOZAMBIQUE) – PRESIDENT

Position at the Time of Election: President, Supreme Court

DR. ROBERTO KAMBOVO (ANGOLA)

Position at the Time of Election: Judge, Supreme Tribunal

Other Positions Held:

• Director of the Cabinet, Ministry of Justice

Publications:

• Maritime Claims in Angola (Dissertation)
• Law of the Prevention and Control of Oil Pollution from Vessels (1999)(Drafting Project for the International Maritime Law Institute)

DR. ONKEMETSE B. TSHOSA (BOTSWANA)

Position at the Time of Election: International law professor, Senior Lecturer and Head of Law, University of Botswana

Publications:

• (with Mogopodi Lekorwe) The Organization of Elections and Institutional Reforms, in Zimbani Maundeni, ed., FORTY YEARS OF DEMOCRACY IN BOTSWANA: 1965-2005 (2005).
• NATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW: CASES OF BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA AND ZIMBABWE (Aldershot, Eng., and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2001).
• Freedom of political activity: law and practice in Botswana, 27(3) COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 371 (1994).

HON. JUSTICE ISAAC JAMU MTAMBO (MALAWI)

Position at the Time of Election: Justice of Appeal, High Court

Other Positions Held:

• Member, Tribunal Assessing the Case of Justice Benjamin Paradza of Zimbabwe
• Member, National Compensation Tribunal
• Director of Public Prosecutions
• Registrar General
• Administrator General

Judicial Writings:

• In the Matter of the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Act 1993 and in the Matter of the Electoral Commission Act. Civil Cause No. 1B of 1999 (2000).

CHIEF JUSTICE ARIRANGA GOVINDASAMY PILLAY (MAURITIUS)

Position at the Time of Election: Chief Justice of Mauritius; Chairman, Judicial and Legal Service Commission of Mauritius; Member, Court of Appeals of Seychelles

An earlier CV of Justice Pillay is available on the website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Publications:

• The Contemporary Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law, Presentation at University of Western Cape Community Law Center Socio-Economic Rights Project Colloquium March 2002.

Judicial Writings:

• Tengur v The Minister of Education and the State of Mauritius. Record no 77387 (Supreme Court of Mauritius).

Alternates

HON. JUSTICE PETRUS T. DAMASEB (NAMIBIA)

Position at the Time of Election: Judge President, High Court of Namibia

Other Positions Held:

• President, Namibia Football Association
• Member of the Board, Social Security Commission
• Partner, Conradie and Damaseb Law Firm
• Secretary to the President (1994-1996)
• Joint Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Administrative Authority for Walvis Bay (1994)
• Acting Secretary to the Cabinet (1993 – 1994)
• Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President of Namibia (1990 – 1993)
• Member, South West Africa People’s Organisation

Publications:

• High Court Matters – Effective Case Flow, Speech presented to the SADC Lawyers Association Conference and Annual General Meeting, June 16-June 19, 2005, Windhoek.

HON. JUSTICE STANLEY B. MAPHALALA (SWAZILAND)

Position at the Time of Election: Justice, High Court

HON. JUSTICE FREDERICK B. WEREMA (TANZANIA)

Position at the Time of Election: Director of Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights

HON. JUSTICE F. M. CHOMBA (ZAMBIA)

Position at the Time of Election: Director, Zambian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

A CV for Justice Chomba is available in United Nations General Assembly document UNGOR, 55th Sess., Agenda item 185, U.N. Doc. A/55/873 (2001)

HON. JUSTICE ANTONIA GUVAVA (ZIMBABWE)

Position at the Time of Election: Justice, High Court

A CV for Justice Guvava is available in Report of the thirteenth meeting of the states parties to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, May 5, 2004, U.N. Doc., CEDAW/SP/2004/3 (2004)