Personal:
25 July 1966: Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Husband: Late Sijadu Lulamile Vulindlela Ndizana
Two children including the Late Yivani Mbali Ndizana
Education:
Matric: Mount Arthur Girl’s High School, Lady Frere, Eastern Cape (1983)
B. Soc Sc, University of Cape Town (1987)
Social Work Honors University of Cape Town (1988)
LLB, University of Natal, Durban (1991)
Accredited Arbitrator by Independent Mediation Services of South Africa (IMSSA) (1997)
Global Faculty Development Certificate (GFD) Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania, USA (2010)
Professional History:
Intern: Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of Witwatersrand (1992)
Tutor: Labour Law Academic Support Program (Wits) 1992
Articled Clerk: Cheadle Thompson and Haysom Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg (1993 – 1995)
Professional Assistant : Von Klemperer Davis, Pietermaritzburg (1995 -1996)
Founder: Thina Siwendu & Associates later Siwendu & Partners Inc. (1996 – 2012)
Director: Corporate Commercial Department Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc (2012 – 2016)
Acting Judge of the High Court: Gauteng Division, Johannesburg (2014 – 2016)
Judge of the High Court: Gauteng Division, Johannesburg (2017 to present)
Special Tribunal Member in terms of the Special Investigation Unit and Special Tribunals Act (2019 – present)
Acting Judge of the Competition Appeal Court (2021 to present)
Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June – 30 November 2022; 1 December 2022 - 31 March 2023; 1 April - 31 May 2023; 1 June - 30 September 2023
Other Activities:
Examiner Attorneys Admission Examination Book Keeping and Ethics, KwaZulu-Natal Law Society
Member of Special Complaints Committee, KwaZulu-Natal Law Society
Part-Time contract law Teacher for Continuing Legal Education Law Society of South Africa
Deputy Chairman, South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA KZN)
Non-Executive Director; East Coast Radio (2003 -2005)
Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Governance University of Stellenbosch (2008 – 2017)
Member of the United Nations Global Compact Advisory Committee (South African Local Network) (2014-2016)
Non-Executive Director in listed and unlisted companies Thebe Investments (2006- 2008) Grindrod Limited and Grindrod Bank (2008 -2010) Woolworths Holdings Limited (2009 -2017)
Commissioner of the South African Law Reform Commission (2013 – 2018)
Ministerial Designate to the National Forum for the Transformation of the Legal Profession (2015 – 2016)
South African Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges member (2017 – present)
South African Judicial Education (SAJEI) Moderator and Presenter (2020 and 2021)
Honours and Awards:
Moot Finalist Final Year LLB, University of Natal, Durban (1991)
Siwendu and Partners Inc voted by Impumelelo as a Top Empowerment Companies (2003)
Regional Business Women Achiever; Professional Category by Business Women’s Association (BWA) (2004)
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UnpublishedPersonal:
25 July 1966: Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
Husband: Late Sijadu Lulamile Vulindlela Ndizana
Two children including the Late Yivani Mbali Ndizana
Education:
Matric: Mount Arthur Girl’s High School, Lady Frere, Eastern Cape (1983)
B. Soc Sc, University of Cape Town (1987)
Social Work Honors University of Cape Town (1988)
LLB, University of Natal, Durban (1991)
Accredited Arbitrator by Independent Mediation Services of South Africa (IMSSA) (1997)
Global Faculty Development Certificate (GFD) Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania, USA (2010)
Professional History:
Intern: Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of Witwatersrand (1992)
Tutor: Labour Law Academic Support Program (Wits) 1992
Articled Clerk: Cheadle Thompson and Haysom Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg (1993 – 1995)
Professional Assistant : Von Klemperer Davis, Pietermaritzburg (1995 -1996)
Founder: Thina Siwendu & Associates later Siwendu & Partners Inc. (1996 – 2012)
Director: Corporate Commercial Department Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc (2012 – 2016)
Acting Judge of the High Court: Gauteng Division, Johannesburg (2014 – 2016)
Judge of the High Court: Gauteng Division, Johannesburg (2017 to present)
Special Tribunal Member in terms of the Special Investigation Unit and Special Tribunals Act (2019 – present)
Acting Judge of the Competition Appeal Court (2021 to present)
Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June – 30 November 2022; 1 December 2022 - 31 March 2023; 1 April - 31 May 2023; 1 June - 30 September 2023
Other Activities:
Examiner Attorneys Admission Examination Book Keeping and Ethics, KwaZulu-Natal Law Society
Member of Special Complaints Committee, KwaZulu-Natal Law Society
Part-Time contract law Teacher for Continuing Legal Education Law Society of South Africa
Deputy Chairman, South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA KZN)
Non-Executive Director; East Coast Radio (2003 -2005)
Research Fellow, Centre for Corporate Governance University of Stellenbosch (2008 – 2017)
Member of the United Nations Global Compact Advisory Committee (South African Local Network) (2014-2016)
Non-Executive Director in listed and unlisted companies Thebe Investments (2006- 2008) Grindrod Limited and Grindrod Bank (2008 -2010) Woolworths Holdings Limited (2009 -2017)
Commissioner of the South African Law Reform Commission (2013 – 2018)
Ministerial Designate to the National Forum for the Transformation of the Legal Profession (2015 – 2016)
South African Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges member (2017 – present)
South African Judicial Education (SAJEI) Moderator and Presenter (2020 and 2021)
Honours and Awards:
Moot Finalist Final Year LLB, University of Natal, Durban (1991)
Siwendu and Partners Inc voted by Impumelelo as a Top Empowerment Companies (2003)
Regional Business Women Achiever; Professional Category by Business Women’s Association (BWA) (2004)
Personal:
Born 6 May 1964, Kwa-Thema, Springs, Gauteng.
Married to Khumsha Makaula
Two children
Education:
Matric: Freemantle Boys School, Lady Frere
B.Juris; University of Transkei: (1986)
LLB; University of Transkei: (1989)
LLM; Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA: (1993)
Professional History:
Clerk for the Department of Justice: 1984
Interpreter in Magistrate’s Office, Mount Frere
Pubic prosecutor, Lusikisiki Magistrate’s Office: 1986-1988
Advisor: Legal planning, Department of Justice, Mthatha: 1988
Magistrate; Libode Magistrate’s Court: 1988 – 1990
Articles of clerkship; Dukada and Company, Mthatha: 1990-1992
Practising attorney; Makaula, Zikwa and Company: 1993-2010
Acting Judge; Eastern Cape Division: 2007 – 2010
Judge; Eastern Cape High Court: 2010 till present
Acting Judge; Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 January 2022 – 31 May 2022; 1 April 2022 - 30 September 2022.
Other Activities:
Member of NADEL: 1990 – 2010
Member of the Transkei Attorney’s Association (TAA): 1993 – 2010
Instructor; East London Law School: 1996 – 2008
Examiner; Cape Law Society: 2005 - 2010
Chairperson of the TTA: 2008 - 2009
Tutor; South African Judicial Education Institute: Aspirant Judges Course: 2019 to date
Personal: 
10 October 1960, Pretoria
3 Children
Education:
Matric: Afrikaans Hoër Meisieskool Pretoria (1978)
BLC University of Pretoria (1982)
LLB (cum laude) University of Pretoria (1984)
LLD: Second Generation Human Rights with a Labour Law Perspective. University of South Africa (1990)
Professional History:
Junior Lecturer: Department of Mercantile Law: University of South Africa: 1984
Professor of Labour Law: Department of Mercantile Law: University of South Africa (until July 2007)
Admitted as an advocate: 1985
Additional Member: Industrial Court (1988 – 1994)
Ad hoc Commissioner: Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) (1996 – July 2007)
Member of the Pretoria Bar: 2003- July 2007
Judge of the Labour Court: 1 July 2007 – 31 December 2015
Judge of the North Gauteng Division of the High Court: 1 January 2016
Acting Judge of the Constitutional Court: July 2018 – December 2018
Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June 2022 – 30 November 2022
Other Activities:
Author of various articles on second-generation human rights and labour law in general
Co-author of Essential Labour Law; Essential Social Security Law; Essential Discrimination Law.
Co-presenter of various certificate courses in Advanced Labour Law and Practical Labour Law
External examiner of Labour law: University of the Witwatersrand
Executive Board member of the International Taekwondo Federation (Vienna)
5th degree black belt: Taekwondo
President of the Taekwondo Continental Federation: Africa
