Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Bernard Ngoepe | |
Honorific-Suffix: | SC |
Office: | Judge President of the North Gauteng High Court |
Term Start: | 1998 |
Term End: | 2012 |
Predecessor: | Frikkie Eloff |
Successor: | Dunstan Mlambo |
Office2: | Chancellor of the University of South Africa |
Term Start2: | 18 September 2011 |
Term End2: | 8 December 2016 |
Predecessor2: | Christoph Friedrich Garbers |
Successor2: | Thabo Mbeki |
Office3: | Tax Ombudsman of South Africa |
Term Start3: | 2013 |
Predecessor3: | None |
Office4: | Judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa |
Term Start4: | 1995 |
Term End4: | 1998 |
Birthname: | Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe |
Birth Date: | 1947 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Pietersburg, Union of South Afrika |
Alma Mater: | University of the North University of South Africa |
Occupation: | Judge |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Judge Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe SC (born 22 October 1947)[1] is a South African Judge serving as Tax Ombudsman of South Africa since 2013. He was the Chancellor of the University of South Africa from 2011 to 2016.
Ngoepe was born in Pietersburg and matriculated at Hebron Institute in Pretoria North in 1967. After school he obtained a BIuris from the University of the North in 1972 and an LL.B. degree from Unisa.[2]
Ngoepe was admitted as an attorney and practised as such for seven years before being admitted as an advocate in 1983. In 1984 he joined the Pretoria Bar and in November 1994, he took silk. He received his first acting position as Judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division for the period February 1995 to June 1995. He was permanently appointed to the Bench in the Transvaal Provincial Division in July 1995.
Ngoepe served as an Acting judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 15 August 1995 to the end of September 1995. He was also the Chancellor of the University of South Africa (Unisa) until December 2016[3]
In 2013, Ngoepe was appointed as the first Tax Ombudsman of South Africa.[4] In September 2016, the South African Treasury extended Judge Ngoepe's term of office as the Tax Ombudsman for a further three years.[5]
South African Human Rights Award