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DIKGANG MOSENEKE retired in May 2016 as the Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa and a Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Before his appointment to the Constitutional Court, he was a judge of the High Court in Pretoria.

Moseneke was born in December 1947 in Pretoria where he completed primary and secondary schooling. During March 1963, at the age of 15 years and whilst in Standard 8 (now Grade 10) he was arrested, detained and convicted for participating in political activity opposed to the apartheid regime as a member of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania. He was sentenced in the Supreme Court, Pretoria to ten years’ imprisonment, all of which he served on Robben Island. Whilst on Robben Island, Moseneke studied privately and matriculated with a university entrance pass. He enrolled with the University of South Africa (Unisa) where he obtained a BA degree majoring in English and Political Science. Subsequently, Moseneke obtained a BIuris degree and thereafter completed an LLB degree. All three degrees were conferred by the University of South Africa.

Shortly after leaving Robben Island, Moseneke’s professional career started in 1976 as an attorney’s clerk at the Pretoria law firm Dyasons and subsequently at the law firm Klagsbrun Incorporated. In 1978 Moseneke was admitted as an attorney and thereafter practised in partnership at the law firm Maluleke, Seriti and Moseneke. After practising for five years as an attorney, in 1983 Moseneke was called to the Bar where he practised as an advocate at the Johannesburg and Pretoria Bars. During his practice at the Pretoria Bar he was elected to serve on the Bar Council. Ten years later, in 1993, he was elevated to the status of Senior Counsel (SC).

With the advent of constitutional negotiations in 1993, Moseneke was appointed to serve on the technical committee that drafted the 1994 Interim Constitution for a democratic South Africa. In 1994 Moseneke was appointed deputy chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission which conducted the first democratic elections in South Africa. In September 1994, Moseneke was appointed to the High Court (Transvaal Provincial Division, as it was then known) as an acting judge after which he returned to his practice as a Silk at the Bar.

Moseneke was elevated to the bench of the High Court Pretoria in 2001 and thereafter was appointed to the Constitutional Court in 2002, and as the Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic from 2005 until 2016. He has often served as Acting Chief Justice of the Republic.

Moseneke has played an active role in the affairs of the organised profession. He was a founder member of the Black Lawyers Association (BLA) and its first national secretary. He was also a founding member of the editorial board of the African Law Review published by the BLA to give a voice to disenfranchised legal practitioners. Together with other progressive legal practitioners, he was a founding member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers of South Africa (NADEL) and its first national treasurer.

He has served in several community-based organisations and non-governmental organisations whose activities were directed at ameliorating the harsh impact of apartheid inequality. This service included his role as chairperson of Project Literacy for over ten years, as trustee of the Sowetan Nation Building, and as Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund for 15 years.

Moseneke has been keenly associated with tertiary education. In 1986 he was appointed visiting Law Professor at Columbia Law School, University of Columbia, New York. He served a term of five years as the first Chancellor of Pretoria Technicon which is now known as the Tshwane University of Technology. He served as the Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg for 12 years. During the autumn of 2011, he was a Distinguished Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, USA. In 2012 Moseneke was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Georgetown School of Law, Washington. In 2013 he was invited as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Zurich School of Law, Switzerland. After retirement he lectured at the University of Oxford and at New York University Law School, and during 2020 at the School of Law at Duke University, USA.

On the home front, Moseneke has been appointed Extraordinary Law Professor at the Universities of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape, Honorary Professor of Bioethics at the School of Health Sciences, and Honorary Professor at the School of Law of the University of the Witwatersrand.

Moseneke holds several honorary doctorates and is a recipient of numerous awards of honour, performance and excellence at home and abroad.

During the past 40 years, Moseneke has read numerous papers at law conferences, both at home and abroad, and is widely published in academic law journals. He has recently published his personal memoir: My Own Liberator,and judicial memoir: All Arise.

Dikgang Moseneke is married to Kabonina, and they have a daughter, two sons and six grandchildren.

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A lawyer by profession, Mike consults in the fields of labour, employment relations and change management. He is founder and author of Beaumont’s Service, a group of interrelated labour law products designed to provide solutions to everyday labour problems, published by LexisNexis.

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Videsha is a corporate leader who stands at the forefront of the dynamic South African technology space. Prior to joining LexisNexis, she was the Data Centre Group Director for EMEA Territory and the GM for Intel. She was named the most influential Woman in Business and Government for ICT Africa. She was spotlighted by Forbes as a change maker in Africa. In 2017 Videsha was recognized as one of the 50 most inspiring women in South Africa by the Inspiring Fifty initiative. In 2019 Videsha was recognised as part of the ‘Africa 50’ - The 50 Leaders in Data Centers and Cloud, driving change in Africa.

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LexisNexis offers world-class content, information analytics and workflow solutions for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. For the legal market, this includes tools for practical guidance, drafting and research – helping practitioners work more productively and advise with confidence, to better meet the needs of their clients.

LexisNexis is part of Reed Elsevier, a FTSE 30 group and Europe's largest paid content company.

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George Findlay is a seasoned attorney, who has experience in notary and conveyancing. After practicing law for 10 years, George joined LexisNexis where he has worked closely with conveyancing and banking software platforms, building an impressive client list along the way. Since 2011 George has been able to leverage his insights from his practising days and has helped grow the Lexis Sign customer base, where he has become the thought leader regarding digital signatures

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With close to 30 years of experience, Mellony is an innovative leader who has managed teams across Africa. She holds a Masters in Business Administration (endorsed by Oxford University), an Industrial and Organisational Psychology Qualification, as well as various qualifications from the IMM for Marketing Management and the Wits Business School Management Advanced Programme.

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My name is Pebble Thabile Hlubi. I am the Managing Director at Kaleidocode Pivot, a company company I co-founded with Kaleidocode owners. We specialize in software testing, project management and software development. I am a Project Manager by profession with just over 10 years experience in the ICT industry managing network and infrastructure as well as software development projects.

I am very vested and passionate about driving forward women and youth empowerment. Given the time and opportunity I do motivational talks and mentoring is a newly added responsibility that I've undertaken this year.

I am extremely family oriented and love spending quality time with my family. On the odd energetic days I can be found running and exercising. I'm a Christian and love going to church

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With over 32 years-experience in the fields of Safety, Health and Environment including Risk, Compliance and Business, Bosman Stramrood is an expert in the fields of governance, risk and compliance. He started his career in the mining industry and is currently the General Manager: Lexis GRC, a division of LexisNexis South Africa. During his career he has served as local and international consultant for all industry types and trained thousands of people in Safety Management. He has also served as Risk Manager for two of South Africa's Mobile Telephone Networks and was a key contributor to the growth of a South African software company, specialising in custom SHEQ Management Solutions

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Andrew Gilder is a Director of Climate Legal, with 17 years’ legal practice experience specialising in climate change (mitigation and adaptation), climate finance and development, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance. Andrew is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng and Western Cape) and holds a BA LLB (University of Natal – now KwaZulu-Natal) and LLM (Marine and Environmental Law, University of Cape Town). He has practical experience which expands over a range of African jurisdictions and including advice to public and private sectors on the development and implementation of climate change, climate finance, carbon markets, carbon tax, environmental and energy law, policy and governance as well as regulatory and transactional advice to industries, foreign embassies and municipalities on the implementation of infrastructure development projects.

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Advocate Ismail Hussain SC. is author of the LexisNexis title Practical Drafting Skills. A former Judge of the High Court and the Competition Appeal Court, he was a member of the Independent Electoral Commission from 1994 to 2004 and has served on various legal training panels. Advocate Ismail Hussain has served on the panel of trainers for Law Society and Legal Aid SA; he currently provides training in Drafting, Trial Technique; Commercial drafting and Financial Compliance Courses attended by Attorneys, Advocates and business. Advocate Ismail has provided training services to 13 government departments.

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Eunice Masipa is the Director of Masipa Attorneys based in Pretoria. She holds an LLB degree from the University of Limpopo and was admitted as an Attorney in 2015.

She is the National Projects and campaign coordinator of National Association of Democratic Lawyers and a House of Constituent member of the Law Society of South Africa. Ms Masipa is an activist of social justice and human rights for all, she believes in equality and African leadership.

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Natasha Kistan is a Governance Risk and Compliance Consultant with LexisNexis South Africa.

She is responsible for advising and implementing LexisNexis bespoke GRC systems for clients and providing training as well as ongoing support.

Natasha has 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, holding various management and senior management positions.

Over the latter part of her career she has worked and gained knowledge and skill with respect to compliance risk analysis and risk management.

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Yvonne Rossouw is a Chartered Accountant (SA) with 10 years’ experience in the auditing and accounting profession. She has been part of the ProBeta team since 2015, facilitating auditing and Probe courses as well as legislative and tax courses. She develops new courses and updates material with legislative changes each year. She is responsible for developing and presenting the Audit International course and works together with clients to develop this course to their specific needs. She also consults clients on compliance with FICA and POPIA as well as other legislative, accounting and auditing topics.

Yvonne volunteers on various committees and working groups within IRBA and SAICA to provide input and guidance in the development of the auditing and accounting profession.

She has a passion for working with people and transferring the knowledge she has obtained to others in order for them to progress in the profession

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Barry specialises in international arbitration and commercial litigation. He trained and practised at Jones Day before joining Pinsent Masons. At LexisNexis, Barry is Head of Arbitration and Head of the Lexis®PSL Dispute Resolution Group.

In practice, Barry’s work included commercial, aviation and technology arbitrations pursuant to international arbitral rules, involving UK and international clients. He also has a background in general commercial, civil fraud and IT litigation, including experience before the High Court. While in private practice, Barry worked with a broad range of clients from the private and public sectors.

At LexisNexis, when not focused on the strategic development and operational requirements of the Dispute Resolution Group, Barry’s content work focuses on the law and practice of international commercial arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. In addition to his work for Lexis®PSL, Barry contributes to the LexisNexis Dispute Resolution Blog and New Law Journal on litigation and arbitration matters

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Alta Swanepoel is the contributing author to the Road Traffic & Road Transport Legislation Volumes I to IV published by Lexis Nexis. She was a member of the AA Technical Committee and has been a part-time lecturer at the University of Johannesburg at the Department of Transport Economics since 1992.

Alta specialises in road traffic and transport legislation and drafting of road traffic and transport legislation and has been involved in the development of  AARTO legislation, e-toll legislation, the TCSP (technical committee for standards and procedures of traffic control and traffic control equipment), refresher course training for traffic officers and more.

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Sayeeda’s role is to further embed Altron’s risk intelligent culture and strengthen the system of governance, compliance and controls. Sayeeda’s experience spans risk, governance and compliance across multiple industries. She has more than 20 years’ experience of which 13 were spent in ICT.

She joined Altron from BCX. Sayeeda holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Durban-Westville and is a qualified Chartered Accountant (SA). She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) through ISACA, a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) through the IIA and has completed the Senior Management Development Programme at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

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Director at The HR & IR Consultancy and was voted the HR director of the year in 2018 by the Futures Forum