Her son Ithateng Mokgoro confirmed to the SABC that the Justice passed away this afternoon. She was involved in a car crash in April last year.

Justice Mokgoro suffered multiple injuries after the car in which she was travelling was hit by a truck between Warrenton and Kimberley in the Northern Cape.

The family says a statement will be released shortly.

Mokgoro was one of the first black woman Justices of the Constitutional Court and served from October 1994 to October 2009.

--SABC--