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POST 09/92 : COURT INTERPRETER (X4 POSTS)
🏢 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
📍 Magistrate Office: Pretoria
⏳ Closes: 30 Mar 2026
🧾 Post: 09/92
Key details
Salary
R228 321 – • per annum
Centre
Magistrate Office: Pretoria
Closing date
30 Mar 2026
Job Highlight
Overview
Join our team to interpret in various courts and translate legal documents, helping ensure clear communication in the justice system.
Requirements
- Pretoria: English, Setswana or Sepedi and Siswati
- De Aar: English, Afrikaans, SeSotho and IsiXhosa
- Springbok: English, Afrikaans, SeTswana and SeSotho
- Johannesburg: English, Xitsonga and IsiZulu / IsiSwati
- Skills and
Competencies
- COMPETENCIES: Communication skills
- Listening skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Time management
- Computer literacy
- Analytical Thinking
- Problem solving
- Planning and organizing
- Confidentiality
- Ability to work under pressure.
Duties
Key Performance Areas: Interpret in Criminal Court, Civil Court, Labour Court, quasi-judicial proceedings; Interpret during consultation; Translate legal documents and exhibits; Record cases in criminal record book; Draw case records on request of the Magistrate and Prosecutors; Keep records of statistics.
How to apply
Gauteng: Quoting the relevant reference number
direct your application to: Provincial Office-Gauteng
Private Bag X6
Johannesburg 2000 OR Physical Address: Provincial Office–Gauteng; Department of Justice and Constitutional Development; 7th floor Schreiner chambers
94 Pritchard
Johannesburg OR https://forms.office.com/r/X2XaVPasWu Northern Cape: Quoting the relevant reference number
direct your application to: The Provincial Head: Justice and Constitutional Development
Private Bag X6106
Kimberley
8300. OR hand delivers at the New Public Buildings
(Magistrates Court) of Knight and Stead Streets
7th floor
8301 OR https://forms.office.com/r/X2XaVPasWu Applicants who wish to post their application forms are encouraged to utilize courier services in light of the current postal challenges.
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Notes
Separate application must be made quoting the relevant reference number. 56