{"id":110175,"date":"2019-10-22T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=110175"},"modified":"2022-12-17T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T11:02:00","slug":"mabel-jansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/mabel-jansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Mabel Jansen, What Did She Do and Where is She Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mabel Jansen is a South African jurist who specializes in intellectual property, mercantile and constitutional law. She made headlines in 2016 due to a series of issues stemming from her controversial comments on Facebook about rape being part of black culture. This led her to resign her position as a judge and since then, there has not been any news about her.<\/strong><\/p>\n Prior to the incident, Mabel was one of the most highly revered judges in South Africa. However, the racist comments she made, raised several eyebrows; thus bringing her credibility under scrutiny.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Mabel has been in the legal profession for a very long time and has been serving as Pretoria High Court Judge since 2013. Following the uproar caused by those comments, the jurist has since resigned from her position as a Pretoria High Court Judge. Learn more about Mabel Jansen below, including her career, controversies, and where she is now.<\/p>\n Summary of Mabel Jansen’s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n Full name: <\/b>Mabel Jansen<\/p>\n Gender: <\/b>Female<\/p>\n Ethnicity: <\/b>White<\/p>\n Nationality: <\/b>South African<\/p>\n Sexual Orientation: <\/b>Straight<\/p>\n Marital Status: <\/b>Married<\/p>\n Mabel Jansen’s <\/strong>Children: <\/b>2 daughters<\/p>\n Famous for: <\/b>Her Facebook comment in which she expressed her belief that rape was part of black people’s culture<\/p>\n She is a South African jurist and the former judge of the Pretoria High Court. She was born and raised in South Africa. However, there is no information available regarding her date and place of birth. There are also no details about her family including her parents and siblings. While much is not known about Mabel’s early life and childhood, there is also no information available when it comes to her educational background.<\/p>\n The former Pretoria High Court Judge has attained maximum intelligence in the law field. Prior to her law career, Jansen first worked as a senior copywriter for De Villiers and Schonfeldt in 1977. During her stay with the company, Jansen was involved in the creation of adverts for Rembrandt, Wonderbra, Caltex, the Dried Fruit Board, and all of the advertisements for San Lameer, etc. More so, through her skills as a multi-lingual, Jansen also helped the company to convert all their English advertisements into Afrikaans. However, after three years and a few months, she left the company in 1980.<\/p>\n In 1984, she became an advocate and a member of the Society of Advocates of South Africa. Later in the same year, she started working as a senior counsel (Silk) for the Pretoria Bar Council; a position she has held even to date. Here, she specializes in Intellectual Property Law including Media Law, Internet Law, MCC Law, Law of Contracts and acquisition. Others are Corporate Law, Mercantile Law, Copyright and Advertising Law. Interestingly, over the course of her career, she has served as both the chairman as well as the vice-chairman of the bar council.<\/p>\n Following her outstanding track records and wealth of experiences, Mabel Jansen was appointed as the Gauteng High Court Judge on the 1st day of December 2013. Before then, she has equally acted as a judge on various occasions as well as an arbitrator and external examiner for the intellectual property law attorneys, among others. She has also represented notable companies such as McDonald’s, Monsanto, Kellogg’s, Vodacom<\/a>, BMW, Ericsson, Sasol, the Whisky Association, and many other large scale trading companies in South Africa.<\/p>\n While her career as the chief judge of Pretoria High Court soared, Mabel handled several cases that cut across rape, theft, burglary, corruption, and other civil cases. However, she became a person of interest in mid-2016 following a series of incidents which led to her being labeled a racist. As a result, she resigned from her position in 2017.<\/p>\n As earlier mentioned, the former Judge of the Pretoria High Court faced lots of backlash over racist comments on Facebook. The news of the incident first made headlines in mid-2016, when her comments caused a public outcry. The controversy stems from her discussion with Gillian Shutte regarding her opinion on black culture. The comments read:<\/p>\n \u201cIn their culture, a woman is there to <\/em>pleasure them. Period. It is seen as an absolute right and a woman\u2019s consent is not required. You may find this hard to accept and unpalatable as did I. I still have to meet a black girl who was not raped at about 12. I am dead serious.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt is only now that women realize that they have rights and have to be taken up seriously that we are being hit by the veritable tsunami of rape cases. But we often have to hear that it was only about the third time that they sought to report it that they were taken up seriously.<\/em><\/p>\n Mothers are so brainwashed that they tell the children that it is the fathers\u2019 birthright to be the first. I must hand you \u2013 10, 20, 30, 40 files and you will adopt a completely different attitude. The white people have a lot to account for. But this? I feel like vomiting… So no \u2013 the black people are by far no angels. Their conduct is despicable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Thinking that was all, she went on to add a few more thoughts:<\/p>\n \u201cMurder is also not a biggy. And gang rapes of baby, daughter, and mother a pleasurable pass time. That, in reality, is the flip side of the coin. They are simply now in a position to branch out and include white women.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nWho is Mabel Jansen?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Her Career as the Chief Judge of Pretoria High Court<\/strong><\/h2>\n
What Did She Do and Where is She Now?<\/strong><\/h2>\n