Joyous Heritage Day Luminaries, Comrades and Friends
We trust you are immersed in the spirit of Ubuntu and Zenzele this fine African day. Do enjoy the recent SABWiL Times.
The purpose of our SABWiL Times is to account to our membership, comrades and friends so that when the time arises for our membership (Luminaries and Alumni) to vote, we choose well who leads our structures in governance. If the day arises that we are not aligned with our Ethos, it is up to us all to faction and fight to ensure worthy leadership is at the helm of SABWiL NPC.
Together we secure the future of our children’s children’s children and that of our land.
A Luta continua.
We thank Luminary Adv. Zandile Qono-Reddy for leading our #SS23 SABWiL Shadowing programmes in Durban.
No doubt UKZN aspirant legal practitioners Nonopa and Xolile are invigorated to soar and shape our legal landscape.
Our Alumni President Madillo welcomes these bright minds into the Alumni fold.
Ubuntu.
Halala to leading global law firm, Dentons, with clever Attorney Angeli Arora spurring us to action, and Woza, headed by energised Attorney Rehana Khan Parker, for including SABWiL in vital dialogue at the UK Law Society Women Leading in Law Roundtables. Our SABWiL Alumna Pupil-Advocate Malebo Matome pens prose about this occasion which I cannot wait to enjoy if our Alumni NEC endorses this imminent publication. Soon we may be privy to these pearls. Alumna Malebo participated in our inaugural SABWiL Human Rights Court arguing the depth of the rights to freedom of expression, section 16 of our Constitution, before our SHRC Chief Justice Adv. Lindi Nkosi-Thomas SC, who leads our NPC as our Chair. SABWiL was well-represented at the Women Leading in Law Roundtables on the day by our SABWiL NPC Vice-President Attorney Tasneem Moosa, our Alumna Pupil-Adv. Malebo Matome and Adv. Ayesha, CEO and Founder of our movement.
Vuk’uzenzele;
We celebrate those men who stand beside us in our fight for Dignity, Equality and Freedoms and thank BBM Law attorneys Claudio Bollo, Brett Thomson and candidate attorney Calvin Matlala for hosting our inaugural Litigation Faculty Think Tank. Our inaugural Critical Legal Thinking Workshop is presented this Saturday by Expert Jimmy Kyriacou. For those not in the know, the Council for Higher Education authored a paper after studying all the LLB curriculums taught at universities and opined that critical thinking will never be adequately addressed in the LLB curriculum owing to the lack of resources. It also called for decolonised education and transformative constitutionalism in the curriculum as I recall. Do peruse the report for additional particularity. Luminary Expert Jimmy and Founder, CEO Adv. Ayesha met pursuant to this report on higher legal education in order to address the dearth apparent in legal training. We now present this workshop fully endorsed by our Litigation Faculty, initiated by our SABWiL NPC Board led by our Chair Adv. Lindi SC. In the spirit of the Fees must Fall movement, we do not charge our youth for legal education.
SABWiL was birthed in 2016 to develop our legal landscape given the 2015 atrocities perpetrated in education and the untimely death of Reeva occasioned by human rights attacks. We celebrate South Africa, Blacks, Women and Law. Our website www.sabwil.org.za bears our NPC banking details in the event that anyone is able to sponsor our activities.
We recall humbly how Adv. Leah Gcabashe SC as the Chair of the Transformation Committee was instrumental in ensuring that our 2017 #s20 SABWiL Human Rights Court (SHRC) kindly hosted by Thulamela Chambers enjoyed a sponsorship by the Johannesburg Society of Advocates. In that 2017 year we thus held two moot human rights courts interrogating section 25 of the Constitution led by our SHRC Chief Justices Adv. Gcina Malindi SC and Adv. Anthea Platt SC. Our Alumni fold soars and multiplies at these intellectual and other valued contributions. We thank our Passionate Intelligentsia who fight beside us to move mountains so we all stand in Dignity, Equality and Freedoms. Wathint’abafazi wathint’imbokodo. This year we convene our fourth SHRC on section 20 of the Constitution, the right to citizenship, hosted by AFSA Chambers. We are excited.
Our Ethos founding our movement born 14 February 2016 is attached.
Thank you for being part of our Passionate Intelligentsia. Without giving hearts, we are but nought. Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe. Keep lighting candles.
Ubuntu,
Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President