The Constitutional Court, with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson as president, was formally opened by President Nelson Mandela on the morning of 14 February 1995. The judges took oaths of office wearing their specially designed green robes in the presence of the president and the minister of justice, Dullah Omar. The next day the eleven judges took their seats to hear the first case, concerning the question of the constitutionality of the death penalty. The court spent its first few years in rented accommodation, but on Human Rights Day, on 21 March 2004, the new complex was opened by President Thabo Mbeki.  
References

Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.