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.

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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

Biography:

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

Biography:

Author and independent consultant: Terry Harrison is the only independent eDiscovery Consultant in South Africa and he advises law firms, corporations, and service providers. He is a regular speaker and writes an award-winning blog on the subject.  Previously Terry spent 25 years as a litigation fee earner in law firms in the UK before moving into litigation technology where he was MD of a UK litigation technology provider in London for 15 years. He was one of the founders of eDiscovery in the UK, organising and speaking at the first ever UK eDiscovery seminar in 2003. In 2014 Terry moved to Cape Town with his South African wife intending to retire. Terry has single handedly pressurised the Dept of Justice to incorporate eDiscovery into the Uniform Rules of Civil Procedure and the Rules Board have now established a Task Force to deal with this, a move supported by the South African Law Reform Commission which mentions Terry in its discussion paper on legal fees.

Biography:

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.

Biography:

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

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

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.

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.

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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!

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.

Biography:

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

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.

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.