Frikkie Eloff

Christoffel Frederik "Frikkie" Eloff SC (31 January 1925 – 10 December 2017) was a South African judge who served as Judge President of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa from 1991 until 1998.

Eloff, was born in Pretoria in 1925 and was taken to England at a young age, where he attended boarding school in Bexhill.

After school he started studying part-time at the University of Pretoria and obtained his BA and LLB degrees.

In 1973, he became a permanent judge at Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa.

[2][1] In 1996, Eloff was the presiding judge in the divorce trial of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.