{"id":237446,"date":"2021-09-30T13:08:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=237446"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:08:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T12:08:57","slug":"raymond-zondo-educational-qualifications-and-salary-progression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/raymond-zondo-educational-qualifications-and-salary-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Zondo\u2019s Educational Qualifications and Salary Progression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Raymond Zondo is the Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa and the presiding Judge of The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, popularly known as the Zondo Commission. Despite coming from a poor background, his passion for education drove him to seek a way to fund his education and take care of his mother and siblings.<\/p>\n

After earning his first degree, he was privileged to work at a renowned law firm as a law clerk, where he started writing his articles. In the course of his over 20 years in the judiciary, he has contributed in several capacities in Labor law. He has held positions such as Judge of the Labour Court, Judge President of the Labour Court, and Justice of the Constitutional Court. And judging from the fact that he receives a salary of R2.6 million per annum, you can tell that he is a wealthy man.<\/p>\n

Raymond Zondo Matriculated From St. Mary’s Seminary<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ray Zondo, as he is fondly called, was born and raised in KwaZulu Natal, where he was opportune to attend St Mary’s Seminary. Considering that he was from a poor home where his father was a laborer and did not support the family of 9 children, of which he was the third child, furthering his education after matriculating from St Mary was going to be an uphill task would have been difficult.<\/p>\n

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But, fortunately for him, he was awarded a bursary to study law at the University of Zululand. Leaving his mother and siblings with nobody to provide for them was a thing of worry for him. And so, to solve this problem, he approached a local businessman, Mr. Suleman Bux, who agreed to give his mother a loan in the form of a monthly voucher for groceries. This went on for three years until he finished his degree program, graduating with a B. Juris from the University of Zululand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He Was Awarded A Scholarship To Complete His LLB at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On completing his B Juris, Ray Zondo got a job at Legal Resources Centre. After working at the Legal Resources Centre for a year, he was fortunate again to land a scholarship that saw him through to complete his LLB at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His salary while working for one year is unknown. However, it may not have contributed to his current net worth as it was at the start-up phase of his life, and he still needed the scholarship to continue his education.<\/p>\n

The South African Legal Luminary Has Three Master’s Degrees<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa, Raymond Zondo, is a man who is passionate about education. After completing his LLB, he went on to get three master’s degrees from the University of South Africa. He holds a master’s degree in Labor Law, Commercial Law, and Patent Law. Today, all his effort in adding to his law qualification has paid off.<\/p>\n

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He started his clerkship at Victoria Mxenge’s law firm, a human rights lawyer and a renowned apartheid activist. After she died in 1985, Zondo completed his clerkship articles at Chennels Alberton Attorneys and was admitted as an attorney in 1989.
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Summary of Raymond Zondo Educational Qualifications<\/strong><\/h3>\n