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Betty Molahleng Lesufi is a South African judicial officer who currently serves as a Regional Magistrate at the Benoni Regional Magistrate’s Court in Gauteng. She previously held the substantive rank of Senior Magistrate and acted as Chief Magistrate. In her current role, she has presided over high profile criminal trials and imposed life sentences in serious cases involving murder and gender based violence. Before her appointment as Regional Magistrate, she served as Senior Magistrate and Head of Office at the Evander Magistrate’s Office in Mpumalanga. While holding that rank, she also acted as Chief Magistrate. Earlier in her career, she handled criminal matters at the Springs Regional Court in Gauteng Following her interviews with the Magistrates Commission in June 2022, she took up the Regional Magistrate post in Benoni rather than a permanent Chief Magistrate position. She was not among the permanent Chief Magistrate appointments announced by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development in November 2026. #MadlangaCommission