Professor Bongani Christopher Majola is the Honorable Chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission. He is an advocate who holds a Masters of Law degree (LL.M) from Harvard Law School, USA. Before being appointed as the Chairperson of the Commission he served as the Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) and Registrar of the UN International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (UNIICTR) from January 2013 to December 2015. In addition, from January 2003 to December 2012, Professor Majola supported the Chief Prosecutor as Deputy Chief Prosecutor, UNICTR, in the prosecution of suspects indicted for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.