Mile stones

1962

Became senior counsel

1976

He did the English commentary for the first rugby test to be televised in South Africa, between the Springboks and All Blacks

1981

Became a judge of the High Court in Cape Town

1996

Appointed to head a commission of inquiry into the AWB’s March 1994 invasion of Bophuthatswana

1996

Became a judge of the Swaziland court of appeal and stood up to King Mswati in a clash over the status of the judiciary