Background
Froneman grew up in Cathcart and was educated at Grey College, Bloemfontein, Stellenbosch University and the University of South Africa.
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Johan Froneman
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Stellenbosch University. Grey College.
Career
He was admitted as an advocate in 1978 and took silk in 1990. In 1994 Froneman was appointed as a judge of the Eastern Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court, now known as the Eastern Cape High Court, Grahamstown. In 1996 he was appointed the first Deputy Judge President of the newly established Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court, a position which he held until 1999.
In 2002 he served as an acting judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal.
In October 2009 he was appointed to the Constitutional Court by President Jacob Zuma. Froneman was an extraordinary professor in public law at the University of Stellenbosch from 2003 to 2008 during which he participated in the specialised Master of Laws course in Human Rights by way of annual seminars.
