Legal, Police and Military
See also: List of South African military chiefs- Lourens Ackermann, constitutional court judge (born 1934)
- Ismail Ayob, lawyer (born 1942)
- George Bizos, lawyer (born 1928)
- Louis Botha Boer War General, captured Winston Churchill during the Second Boer War, also one of the singnitaries of the Treaty of Vereeniging (1862-1919)
- Arthur Chaskalson, judge (born 1931)
- Piet Cronjé, boer general and commander-in-chief of ZAR's military forces (1840–1911)
- Koos de la Rey, boer general (1847–1914)
- Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, boer general and acting President of the Orange Free State (1854–1922)
- Johannes Christiaan de Wet, legal academic (1912–1990)
- Bram Fischer, advocate QC and political activist (1908–1975)
- Richard Goldstone, ex-constitutional court judge (born 1938)
- Harold Hanson, advocate QC (1904–1973)
- Sydney Kentridge, former advocate of the Supreme Court and Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court (born 1922)
- Mervyn E. King, former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa and chairman of the King Committee on Corporate Governance
- Pius Langa, chief justice of constitutional court (born 1939)
- Magnus Malan, minister of defence and chief of the South African Defence Force (born 1930)
- Cecil Margo, judge (1915–2000)
- Mogoeng Mogoeng, Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1961)
- Sandile Ngcobo, former Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1953)
- Bulelani Ngcuka, director of public prosecutions (born 1954)
- Marmaduke Pattle Highest scoring Allied Air Ace of World War Two (1914-1941)
- Albie Sachs, justice in constitutional court (born 1935)
- Jackie Selebi, national commissioner of police (born 1950)
- Percy Sonn, former head of the Directorate of Special Operations (1947–2007)
- Sir Robert Clarkson Tredgold, Chief Justice of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1899–1977)
- Percy Yutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia Treason Trial (1911–2002)
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Famous quotes containing the words police and/or military:
“A sure proportion of rogue and dunce finds its way into every school and requires a cruel share of time, and the gentle teacher, who wished to be a Providence to youth, is grown a martinet, sore with suspicions; knows as much vice as the judge of a police court, and his love of learning is lost in the routine of grammars and books of elements.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
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