# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mandisa-maya
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:47:09.735Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mandisa-maya"
name: "Mandisa Maya"
slug: "mandisa-maya"
description: "Mandisa Muriel Lindelwa Maya is the Chief Justice of South Africa. She was formerly the president of the Supreme Court of Appeal from 2017 to 2022 before she was elevated to the position of Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa in September 2022. She joined the bench in May 2000 as a judge of the Transkei Division of the High Court of South Africa and was elevated to the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2006."
tagline: "South African judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mmaya_img.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
birthDate: "1964-03-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.37509866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gpe.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "मंदिसा माया"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandisa_Maya"
    title: "Mandisa Maya"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29119101"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump