The Resurrection – a Lawyer’s View

About the author:
Keith Matthee obtained his BA LLB at the University of Natal.  He was admitted as an advocate in 1979.  He left law in 1979 for eight years to work for the Student Christian Association and then for the Methodist Church.  During this period he worked on various university campuses in South Africa.  From 1981 to 1982 he was based at St Aldates, Oxford. In 1987 he obtained a Bachelor Of Divinity degree from Rhodes University, majoring in New Testament Studies and Hellenistic Greek.  He has been a lay preacher in the Methodist Church since 1978.  He returned to the bar as an advocate in 1987.  Since 1991 he has served in an adjudicating role in different forums, including serving as an arbitrator, a presiding officer in the Industrial Court, an assessor in the Labour Appeal Court, and on a number of occasions as an Acting Judge in the High Courts of Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, East London, and Mthatha.

He has appeared in all the courts of South Africa, including the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court Of Appeal.  In 2002 he was appointed as Senior Counsel by President Mbeki.  In 2007 he relocated from the Eastern Cape to Cape Town.  At present he is a member of the Cape Town Bar.  He married Roslyn Dorrington in 1980 and they have 2 sons and a daughter.  He stays fit by running, climbing Table Mountain and hoping that the Sharks rugby team will win more finals!