Meet Our South Africa Authors

Our attorney authors are experienced practitioners in a broad range of antitrust matters-including competition law and trade regulation.

  1. Pieter Colyn

    Pieter Colyn

    Executive and Head of ENSafrica's Mine and Occupational Health and Safety (MOHS) Department

    Pieter Colyn

    Pieter Colyn

    Executive and Head of ENSafrica's Mine and Occupational Health and Safety (MOHS) Department

    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.

  2. Natasha Kistan

    Natasha Kistan

    Governance Risk and Compliance Consultant

    Natasha Kistan

    Natasha Kistan

    Governance Risk and Compliance Consultant

    Biography:

    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.

  3. Olivia Rumble

    Olivia Rumble

    Director of Climate Legal

    Olivia Rumble

    Olivia Rumble

    Director of Climate Legal

    Biography:

    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.

  4. Nqobile Mhlongo

    Nqobile Mhlongo

    Director – Hlanganani Sinqobe

    Nqobile Mhlongo

    Nqobile Mhlongo

    Director – Hlanganani Sinqobe

    Biography:

    Born and raised in Soweto, Johannesburg. Nqobile attended Maryvale College and proceeded to further her studies at the University of the Witwatersrand where she obtained a BA Honours degree in Sociology, majoring in Industrial Relations. Nqobile joined a broadcasting corporate environment in her honours year which solidified her passion for the Employee-Employer relationship and governance framework that exists in corporations. Nqobile is currently studying towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Practice Management (PGDIP) at the Henley Business School. In her ten-year (10) journey, she still continues to explore the interrelation between 'society', 'work', and the employee-employer dynamics. Nqobile’s qualitative research background has given her insight on the different meanings relating to the 'concept of work' that employees' in the informal and formal sectors hold; and their different relationships to their work environments and those who lead them within such organizations. This has enabled her to provide business leaders with effective employee management strategies.

  5. Judge Kollapen

    Judge Kollapen

    Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

    Judge Kollapen

    Judge Kollapen

    Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

    Biography:

    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.

  6. Eric Levenstein

    Eric Levenstein

    DIRECTOR, HEAD OF INSOLVENCY, BUSINESS RESCUE & RESTRUCTURING PRACTICE

    Eric Levenstein

    Eric Levenstein

    DIRECTOR, HEAD OF INSOLVENCY, BUSINESS RESCUE & RESTRUCTURING PRACTICE

    Biography:

    Eric Levenstein has been a director of Werksmans Attorneys since 1993 and is the head of the firm’s Insolvency, Business Rescue & Restructuring practice. He specialises in litigation and dispute resolution with a particular focus on business rescue, insolvency and restructuring, banking and finance and corporate recovery of debt. His expertise extends to director liability issues. He regularly delivers seminars and writes for various publications on these topics among others. He is the Chairperson of the South African Restructuring & Insolvency Practitioners Association (SARIPA) and sits on the board of INSOL International, a worldwide group of insolvency practitioners. Eric has BCom and LLB degrees, Higher Diplomas in Company Law and Tax, a Diploma in Insolvency Law and a Doctorate of Laws in Business Rescue.

  7. Bosman Stramrood

    Bosman Stramrood

    General Manager: Lexis GRC

    Bosman Stramrood

    Bosman Stramrood

    General Manager: Lexis GRC

    Biography:

    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

  8. Andrew Gilder

    Andrew Gilder

    Director of Climate Legal

    Andrew Gilder

    Andrew Gilder

    Director of Climate Legal

    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.

  9. George Findlay

    George Findlay

    LexisNexis Account Manager and Corporate Software Specialist

    George Findlay

    George Findlay

    LexisNexis Account Manager and Corporate Software Specialist

    Biography:

    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

  10. Mellony Ramalho

    Mellony Ramalho

    Sales and Marketing Director – LexisNexis South Africa

    Mellony Ramalho

    Mellony Ramalho

    Sales and Marketing Director – LexisNexis South Africa

    Biography:

    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.

  11. Judge Dikgang Moseneke

    Judge Dikgang Moseneke

    Editorial Panelist

    Judge Dikgang Moseneke

    Judge Dikgang Moseneke

    Editorial Panelist

    Biography:

    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.

  12. Pebble Thabile Hlubi

    Pebble Thabile Hlubi

    Managing Director at Kaleidocode Pivot

    Pebble Thabile Hlubi

    Pebble Thabile Hlubi

    Managing Director at Kaleidocode Pivot

    Biography:

    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

  13. Videsha Proothveerajh

    Videsha Proothveerajh

    CEO & Chairperson of the Board, LexisNexis South Africa

    Videsha Proothveerajh

    Videsha Proothveerajh

    CEO & Chairperson of the Board, LexisNexis South Africa

    Biography:

    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.

  14. Alta Swanepoel

    Alta Swanepoel

    Expert in Traffic and Transport legislation

    Alta Swanepoel

    Alta Swanepoel

    Expert in Traffic and Transport legislation

    Biography:

    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.

  15. Sumantha Reddy

    Sumantha Reddy

    Responsible for the maintenance and development of a segment of legal content

    Sumantha Reddy

    Sumantha Reddy

    Responsible for the maintenance and development of a segment of legal content

    Biography:

    Sumantha has been with LexisNexis for over 12 years and is responsible for the maintenance and development of a segment of our legal content, working to enhance customer experience and drive revenue growth. Her areas of specialty are Family Law, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law. Her focus is interacting with our customers to understand their needs and challenges so that we can help them become better practitioners, judicial officers and prosecutors as well as building and maintaining strong and effective relationships with authors. Sam has a BProc from the University of KwaZulu Natal and is a qualified attorney.

  16. Jakes Doorsamy

    Jakes Doorsamy

    Director

    Jakes Doorsamy

    Jakes Doorsamy

    Director

    Biography:

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

  17. Nonhlanhla Onverwacht

    Nonhlanhla Onverwacht

    Legal Outreach and Compliance Lead – Multichoice

    Nonhlanhla Onverwacht

    Nonhlanhla Onverwacht

    Legal Outreach and Compliance Lead – Multichoice

    Biography:

    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.

  18. Greg Chamberlin

    Greg Chamberlin

    General Manager: Compliance

    Greg Chamberlin

    Greg Chamberlin

    General Manager: Compliance

    Biography:

    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