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