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Judge Kollapen is an acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from July 2017 and has served as a Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria, since 2011. He is also the Chairperson of the South African Law Reform Commission. Justice Kollapen has previously served as a lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria. Moreover, he has served on the board of many civil society organisations, including the Legal Resources Centre, the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, IDASA, and the London based Article 19. For LexisNexis Judge Kollapen represents a breed of great legal minds who see technology as an enabler to advancing the Rule of Law.

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Nicola Comninos, CFA, is currently the Group CRO of the JSE. She chairs the JSE Pension Fund Board and CFA SA Society Risk, Governance & Audit Committee. She is the winner of the coveted IRMSA 2020 Risk Manager of the year and co-head of Women in ETFs South Africa chapter.

Nicola participates in various industry committees, including World Federation of Exchanges Risk Working Group, SARB Financial Sector Contingency Forum and IRMSA Risk Intelligence Committee.  With over 15 years’ experience in financial markets, her previous roles include MD of Nautilus Group, a Hedge Fund Platform, and head of various functions including Group Strategy, Sustainability, Equities and Equity Derivatives and Business Intelligence. Previous industry roles include Investment Consulting and Life Investment Product Development. Her qualifications include B.Com Honours and B.Com Investment Management degrees (both Cum Laude).

Nicola is passionate about mentorship, and sharing her knowledge and experience!

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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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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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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.

I look after content.

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Olivia Rumble is a Director of Climate Legal with 10 years’ legal practice experience specialising in environmental law, energy law policy and governance, climate change (mitigation and adaptation), climate finance, carbon markets, and carbon tax. Olivia is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng and Western Cape), and holds a PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Stellenbosch); an LLB (University of Cape Town); and an LLM in Environmental Law (University of Cape Town - with distinction). She has a strong background in water law as well as climate change law, and has acted for governments and regional institutions by pioneering legal reform initiatives in climate change and water law in South Africa and SADC. She regularly counsels clients on the legal considerations relevant to emerging opportunities in low carbon development and sustainable energy practices and has expertise in South Africa’s complex air quality and greenhouse gas legal regime.

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Ahmore is a director at Werksmans Advisory Services and the Head of the Data Protection & Privacy practice group. She extensively advises local and international clients on all aspects of regulatory compliance with specific focus on competition law and data privacy in various sectors. Ahmore advises clients throughout Africa and in particular the COMESA, CEMAC and WAEMU regions on a regular basis. She regularly undertakes compliance audits and oversees the implementation of compliance programmes and is the principle driver of the Werksmans risk assessment and e‑Learning tools as well as the co‑leader of the Werksmans Dawn Raid Team. Ahmore is a regular convenor, speaker and participant at local and international conferences and seminars on competition law and data privacy. Ahmore is a member of the International Association of Data Privacy Professionals and is currently reading towards her LLD (Data Protection). Ahmore is co-author of the textbook: A Commentary on the Protection of Personal Information Act, LexisNexis, 2018.

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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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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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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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Nonhlanhla has a career spanning over 20 years, working for some of the leading players in banking and broadcasting in South Africa and the rest of the African continent. During her career she acquired immense business, strategy development, stakeholder management and innovation skills. Most recently, she has been at the forefront of introducing corporate governance initiatives in the broadcasting industry, which have included the implementation of a contracts management forum and a legal compliance conference.

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Kim Palmer is the award-winning founder of On The Ball College and WeTrainICT and the newly launched Learn2Boom online training portal. On The Ball College is accredited through MICT Seta and training partners with Microsoft, Oracle Academy, AWS, CompTIA, CertiPort and Pearson VUE Prometric, and gives teenagers and young adults from underprivileged backgrounds the opportunity to study critically needed IT skills that leads to employment through her work placement programme.

Kim is also the chairman of On The Ball Foundation and founder of the well-known and fast-growing Women in ICT annual conference. ICT is a sector where women are grossly underrepresented — only 23% of tech jobs are held by women in South Africa. Palmer says that this results in many misperceptions that young women hold about ICT, which she is making an effort to change. She says the solution to promote inclusivity in the local tech sector lies in encouraging and supporting women to pursue careers in it. She believes that young women in the sector should explore and empower themselves.

Technology is growing, and it’s growing at a fast pace, and you shouldn’t be putting any restrictions on yourselves. My advice to young women is to go and grab any sort of technology they find fascinating and take it further, because there is so much out there.

Kim, who has a background in IT, started her first computer business at the age of 19 and seven years later went on to establish On The Ball College. Kim volunteered as a mentor at the Alan Gray Foundation, provided training at the Haven Night Shelters and has been involved in various HIV/Aids awareness projects. She continues to be involved in youth initiatives and uplifting the community through her foundation.

Kim works tirelessly to inspire her students to believe in themselves by giving them the tools to create a life they never thought possible. “You can only dream about what you have been exposed to. We need to educate and inspire our youth so that they understand that IT and technology are career options. “I want our youth to dream big and in turn, those creative ideas will become a reality in our country...it did for me.”

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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

Practice Areas:

• Occupational Health and Safety

Biography:

The content for LexisNexis Practical Guide Occupational Health and Safety is written by Willem Le Roux, the Executive Consultant and Pieter Colyn, the Executive and Head of ENSafrica's Mine and Occupational Health and Safety (MOHS) Department. ENSafrica is the only law firm in Africa with a dedicated team of MOHS specialists, and the MOHS Department’s senior practitioners have more than 60 years of combined experience.

ENSafrica acts for a wide range of international mining houses and multinational corporates and advises them on compliance with MOHS law, including the South African Mine Health and Safety Act (MHSA), the South African Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHASA) and legislation regarding compensation for work-related deaths, injuries and diseases. Pieter's expert knowledge has enabled him to be the leading lawyer in some of the mining industry's largest matters and he is also highly ranked by various reputable international ranking agencies.

Pieter has represented clients in the mining, construction/manufacturing and engineering industries, as well as in the ferrochrome, steel, vanadium and iron-making industries. He has personally appeared for a variety of companies, corporations and top executive and management personnel in accident investigations and inquiries, in particular, following major mine and occupational accidents and disasters in South Africa’s Westonaria, Rustenburg, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and Northern Cape areas. He has also done appearances in criminal matters and inquests.

Pieter is the author of LexisNexis’ Occupational Health and Safety Law, a loose-leaf commentary on the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 with Willem. The team members of ENSafrica's MOHS Department are not just experts in the law, what sets them apart is their deep knowledge and understanding of mining and heavy industry, including complex technical issues such as rock engineering, geology, seismology, construction and general engineering. Their market-leading reputation has enabled them to appear in some of the industry's largest and foremost mine and occupational accidents and disasters.

Team members of ENSafrica's MOHS Department appear personally in informal investigations, formal inquiries and inquests. They also assist with criminal prosecutions and civil court proceedings, as far as such matters relate to MOHS law.

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Mabaeng Lenyai is the Vice President of the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) – the voluntary representative body of Attorneys in South Africa. Ms Lenyai is an attorney and director at Mabaeng Lenyai Inc in Pretoria. She holds the BProc and LLB degrees from the University of Limpopo and the University of KwaZulu-Natal respectively.

Lenyai was appointed as an acting judge at the Gauteng Division of the High Court (Superior), Pretoria. She was admitted as an attorney in 1998 and is a notary and conveyancer. She has been a council member of the LSSA since 2015 and the Chairperson of the Black Lawyers Association’s (BLA) Northwest branch for four years. Since 2018 she has been a member of the National Executive Council of the BLA, where she is the Secretary General.  Lenyai as part of her social commitment, is a council member of the Community Education Training Centre in Mmakau and a legal adviser on Motsweding FM.

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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

Biography:

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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Jeremy Maggs is a media specialist with close on forty years’ experience in television, radio, and print. Until recently, he hosted television news channel eNCA’s weekday lunchtime news programme before stepping down in early-2021 to start his own media company Bold – a strategy and reputation management enterprise which is part of the independent Brave Group. Maggs is an accomplished public speaker, popular and witty MC, and conference facilitator.

He also runs a successful media training and coaching business with numerous blue-chip listed companies as clients.  He has just completed his second book, My Final Answer. Published by Pan McMillan, it is a memoir of his life and experience in the media