Tributes pour in for former ConCourt judge Yvonne Mokgoro

JOHANNESBURG - Condolences are streaming in for former Constitutional Court judge Yvonne Mokgoro.

She died at the age of 73 after suffering multiple injuries in a serious car crash near Kimberley in April last year.

Several setbacks in her recovery forced her to step away from public engagements.

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Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela says her death is a monumental loss to the legal profession.

Mokgoro was South Africa’s first black female justice on the Apex Court, serving from 1994 to 2009.

She’s been hailed as a defender of justice, human dignity and the Constitution.