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PERSONAL

Born 23 September 1965, Johannesburg

Partner: Gary Da Mata

No children

EDUCATION

Matric: Hoёrskool Linden (1983)

Degrees: B Comm Law (1986) Rand Afrikaans University, (now University of Johannesburg)

LLB (1988) Rand Afrikaans University

LLM Banking Law (1992) Rand Afrikaans University

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Candidate Attorney Bowens - Attorneys, Johannesburg - January 1989-December 1990

Admitted as attorney March/April 1991

Employed as Professional Assistant - Bowens Attorneys - April 1991-February 1992

Pupillage - Johannesburg Society of Advocates (JSA) - February 1992 to July 1992

Member JSA - 2 July 1992-30 November 2018

Senior counsel status conferred - 2009

Various acting appointments at High Court, Johannesburg during 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.

Acting appointment at High Court, Pretoria – February 2018, May 2018

Appointed as Judge of the High Court, Gauteng Division, Johannesburg - 1 January 2019 to present.

Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 01 June – 30 September 2024

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Member of Law Society of Northern Province -1991-February 1992

Member JSA 1992 – 2018

Member of Bar Council JSA - November 1998 – October 2007

Ad hoc member of JSA Bar Bursary Fund Committee – 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 and JSA Professional Committee - 2013

Involved in Advocacy Training JSA from 2000 – 2009; since 2019 on ad hoc basis when requested to assist

Involved in training programmes of Aspirant Women Judges and Aspirant Judges in 2022 and 2023

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)

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