{"id":213506,"date":"2025-11-13T20:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-norberto-sodre-joao-appointed-new-supreme-court-chief-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:49:01","slug":"angola-norberto-sodre-joao-appointed-new-supreme-court-chief-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-norberto-sodre-joao-appointed-new-supreme-court-chief-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Norberto Sodr\u00e9 Jo\u00e3o Appointed New Supreme Court Chief Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Luanda \u2014 Angolan Head of State Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, on Wednesday (5) in Luanda appointed Norberto Sodr\u00e9 Jo\u00e3o as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (TS), thus replacing Joel Leonardo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">According to the official pages of the Presidency of the Republic, the nomination of Sodr\u00e9 Jo\u00e3o stems from the ratification of the three candidates for the position who were elected in the plenary session of the Superior Court of Justice on October 31st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The election results were ratified during the 11th&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511130308.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angolan Head of State Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, on Wednesday (5) in Luanda appointed Norberto Sodr\u00e9 Jo\u00e3o as the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (TS), thus replacing Joel Leonardo. According to the official pages of the Presidency of the Republic, the nomination of Sodr\u00e9 Jo\u00e3o stems from the ratification of the three candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,10924,6510,6185,14019,6852,257,52867,52868,254,9498],"class_list":["post-213506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-appointed","tag-chief","tag-court","tag-joao","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-norberto","tag-sodre","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}