Here is some more info about the assessors. Unfortunately, google refused to translate it for me.
http://www.beeld.com/nuus/2014-03-03-assessor-het-al-as-regter-diens-gedoen
Here we go:-
HTTP://WWW.BEELD.COM/NUUS/2014-03-03-ASSESSOR-HET-AL-AS-REGTER-DIENS-GEDOEN
OSCAR PISTORIUS TRIAL
Assessor has served as a judge
Monday, March 3, 2014
One of the assessors judge Thokozile Masipa Oscar Pistorius in the murder trial assists himself last year for a week as judge observed.
Adv. Janette Henzen-Du Toit has included a BA honors degree in psychology and a master's degree in criminal justice and criminal prosecution.
She is currently working on her doctorate in criminal law, criminal prosecution, evidence and constitutional interpretation.
Her thesis deals with the holistic approach to legislation on minimum sentences in South Africa.
Henzen-Du Toit in 1998 Bar and was a practicing member of the Pretoria Bar.
From 2003 to 2004 she was a practicing member of the North-desk.
She in 2005 as a practicing member of the national forum of advocates also as assessor in court cases presided.
In 2006, Du Toit-Henzen her at the Legal Aid Board (LAB) in Pretoria joined.
She is the 2010 Supreme Court unit manager of the Johannesburg relief center where she is responsible for high profile cases, cases heard by a full bench of the High Court shall be heard and appeal to the Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
She and Adv. Themba Mazibuko is Masipa's assessors.
Despite inquiries to officials in the court and players in the justice department, no one at the time of publication to explain Mazibuko image's background is.
- Sonja Carstens