Edwin Cameron

Quick Facts

Full Name	Edwin Cameron
Occupation	Supreme Court Justice
Date Of Birth	Feb 15, 1953(1953-02-15)
Age	71
Birthplace	South Africa
Country	South Africa
Horoscope	Aquarius

Edwin Cameron Biography

Edwin Cameron is one of the most popular and richest Supreme Court Justice who was born on February 15, 1953 in South Africa, South Africa. Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa known for his proactive stances on human rights issues. He is the first senior office holder in South Africa to openly admit to being HIV-positive.

He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal by South African President Thabo Mbeki in 2000.

Cameron had himself contracted HIV in the 1980s and became extremely ill with AIDS when working as a High Court judge. His salary allowed him to afford anti-retroviral treatment, which saved his life. Cameron’s realisation that he owed his life to his relative wealth caused him to become a prominent HIV/AIDS activist in post-apartheid South Africa, urging its government to provide treatment to all. He has strongly criticised President Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS- denialist policies. Cameron was the first, and remains the only, senior South African official to state publicly that he is living with HIV/AIDS.

Cameron’s early career combined academia and legal practice. In 1982, while working as a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, he famously wrote a scathing critique of the late Chief Justice L. C. Steyn, then a darling of the apartheid establishment. And, in 1987, Cameron argued that three senior South African judges, including its former Chief Justice, Pierre Rabie, ought to resign to preserve the legitimacy of the judiciary. Cameron practised at the Johannesburg Bar from 1983 to 1994. From 1986 he was a human rights lawyer at Wits’s Centre for Applied Legal Studies, where in 1989 he was awarded a personal professorship in law. Cameron’s practice included labour and employment law; defence of African National Congress fighters charged with treason; conscientious and religious objection; land tenure and forced removals; and gay and lesbian equality. In 1992 he became a co-author (with Tony Honoré, one of his mentors at Oxford) of Honoré’s South African Law of Trusts. Cameron took silk in 1994.

His father is Scottish and his mother is an Afrikaner.

Edwin Cameron Net Worth

Edwin Cameron is one of the richest Supreme Court Justice from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Edwin Cameron 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and served as a human rights lawyer during the era of apartheid.

He is the author of several acclaimed books, including Defiant Desire – Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa and his memoir, Witness to AIDS.

Edwin Cameron (born 15 February 1953 in Pretoria) was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He is well known for his HIV/AIDS and gay-rights activism and was hailed by Nelson Mandela as “one of South Africa’s new heroes”.

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Cameron was appointed permanently to the Witwatersrand Local Division in 1995. His best-known judgment in this capacity is Holomisa v Argus Newspapers Ltd, where Bantu Holomisa had brought a defamation suit against The Star for alleging that he had been “directly involved” in the infiltration into South Africa of an Azanian People’s Liberation Army “hit squad” aimed at “killing whites”. Cameron’s judgment was described as a “most rigorous exposition” of the Constitution’s application to private disputes and a “landmark” defence of free speech. Others, while acknowledging the judgment had departed importantly from apartheid-era law, said it should have gone further in protecting journalists. Cameron’s position was substantially confirmed, in subsequent cases, by the Supreme Court of Appeal.

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Edwin Ranked on the list of most popular Supreme Court Justice. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Edwin Cameron celebrates birthday on February 15 of every year.

Cameron’s awards include the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights (2000); Stellenbosch University’s Alumnus Award; Transnet’s HIV/AIDS Champions Award; and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Excellence in Leadership Award. In 2008 he served as a member of the Jury of the Red Ribbon Award, a partnership of the UNAIDS Family. He is the 2009–2010 winner of the Brudner Prize from Yale University, awarded annually to an accomplished scholar or activist whose work has made significant contributions to the understanding of LGBT issues or furthered the tolerance of LGBT people. In 2019, Cameron was awarded the Asijiki Awward for Service and Humanity from the Asijiki Coalition, which advocates for the decriminalization of sex work in South Africa.

Top Facts about Edwin Cameron

1. Edwin Cameron is a retired South African judge.
2. He was appointed to the Constitutional Court in 2008.
3. Cameron is openly gay and HIV-positive.
4. He played a key role in legalizing same-sex marriage in South Africa.
5. Cameron has written extensively on human rights and HIV/AIDS issues.
6. He received numerous awards for his work, including the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights.
7. Cameron served as an anti-apartheid activist during his youth.
8. He was also a prominent human rights lawyer before becoming a judge.
9. Cameron retired from the bench in August 2019 after serving for over a decade.
10. His legacy includes advancing LGBTQ+ rights and promoting social justice in South Africa.

Who is the most educated judge in South Africa?

The Honourable Edwin Cameron SCOB
Alma mater| Stellenbosch University Keble College, Oxford University of South Africa

Who is the Chancellor of Stellenbosch?

Stellenbosch University (SU) will install its 15th Chancellor, Justice Edwin Cameron , on Wednesday evening. Cameron an academic, jurist, author and recently retired Constitutional Court justice, was elected to the office of chancellor of the university on 25 September 2019.

How old is the youngest judge in South Africa?

Then, in 1999, she was appointed to the High Court of South Africa, making her the youngest judge in the country at 32 years old and also making her the first black female judge in her province.

How much do judges earn in South Africa?

Constitutional Court and SCA judges will earn R188‚367 per month (R2. 26-million per year). High and Labour Court judges will earn R153‚047 per month (R. 1.83-million per year).

Why are Stellenbosch students called Maties?

The students of Stellenbosch University are nicknamed “Maties”. The term probably arises from the Afrikaans word “tamatie” (meaning tomato, and referring to the maroon sport uniforms and blazer colour).