Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza is a South African lawyer and political activist born October 31, 1949, in Cala, in the former Transkei. He rose to prominence in the 1990s as Commissioner and head of the investigative unit of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and later served as a commissioner on the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur. In 2005 he became the first African to be conferred silk in the history of the Cape Bar. He was appointed a judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, and completed his law degree while imprisoned for anti apartheid political activity in the 1970s.
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He was a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza (born 31 October 1949) is a South African lawyer and political activist.
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From 1993 he taught the law of evidence and criminal law and from 1995, human rights law at Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha.
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is a South African lawyer and political activist
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P569 (date of birth): 1949
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P569 (date of birth): 1949-10-31
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P19 (place of birth): Transkei
View the SourceJustice Dumisa Ntsebeza of South Africa, African Court on Human and Peoples Rights
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He was elected Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in February 2021, for a six-year term.
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