Vuk’uzenzele.

SABWiL Times Issue 9 September 2021

Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe.

Ubuntu.

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It is with such delight that we sprint into a new decade. We are excited. Challenges abound. These are opportunities to build muscle and soar regardless. We fight on in pursuit of Dignity, Equality and Freedoms. Enjoy snippets into our merry closing of a decade. Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe!

On 6 December 2019, SABWiL Founder CEO Adv. Ayesha presided as the Judge President in the Student Litigation Society (SLS) Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA). This suit involved alleged political crimes by a refugee appellant. Adv. Ayesha found in favour of the extradition as a minority. The majority judgment was based on the right to life. Therein, extradition was refused owing to human rights concerns. Halala SABWiL Alumnus Boitumelo for drafting this case scenario. Malibongwe SLS for initiating this court and much praise to the parties appearing. Vuk’uzenzele.

In commemoration of the signing of our Constitution on 10 December 1996 in Sharpeville by Tata Madiba, the 4th SABWiL Human Rights Court (SHRC) convened. Our annual court, impeccably hosted by AFSA, is led by SHRC Chief Justice (CJ) Adv. Soraya Hassim SC, SHRC Deputy CJ Adv. Peter Makhambeni and SHRC Justice Adv. Ori Ben-Zeev .

The Applicants, Amicus Curiae and Respondents filed heads of argument and submitted oral arguments in a provocative suit about the right to citizenship, section 20. To appreciate the arguments explore the SHRC tab on sabwil.org.za to access the heads of argument filed. Subscribe to our SABWiL YouTube channel to enjoy the proceedings.

Halala SABWiL NPC Director Adv. Ori for initiating this court and drafting a case scenario that has the SHRC Deputy CJ delivering a minority judgment! Very well done to the parties and huge thanks to the Amicus Curiae for assisting the court. What will our 5th SHRC deliberate upon? If you have ideas, please do share this with us at faculty@sabwil.org.za.

Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe. Ubuntu.

Wa’thint abafazi wa’thint imbokodo. Halala Passionate Intelligentia for priceless contributions. We are the change. Now.

Ubuntu,
Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President

As the Chinese year of the Metal Rat gnaws near, we marvel at 2019 tail-end wonders. How enlightening to reflect upon pearls of Dignity, Equality and Freedoms infused in Ubuntu and Zenzele at this turn of the decade.

Aspirant lawyer Lerato Mudau delights in the SABWiL Shadow of Luminary Adv. Samantha Martin, our SABWiL NPC Board Director. #SS27 sparkles from chambers to summary judgments to opposed motion court (GLD) and even a soar into labour practice.

Alumna Lerato pens: ‘There is no better remedy of becoming powerful, than to educate yourself. …, I am grateful for such opportunities that organizations such as the South African Black Women in Law … provide for aspiring legal practitioners and law students in general. The shadowing program equipped me in ways that I never imagined it would. In as much as my confidence was boosted, I learned and experienced quiet a handful especially when it comes to the practicality of the law. These skills and the information I gathered during the program will definitely enable me to think more efficiently in the near future.’ Halala Adv. Samantha Martin, Adv. Greg Porteous and Adv. Hugh Mbatha for contributing to the development of our youth in law through #SS27. Legal practitioners interested in skill shaping through our programmes are invited to engage with us. Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe.

Wathint ‘abafazi wathint ’imbokodo. 2019 is a phenomenal year in our movement. Our Think Tanks finalised our amended Memorandum of Incorporation (MOI) on 10 October in line with our Ethos. Many of our Board Directors enjoy a full year in service in governance, Adv. Tiny, Adv. Gcina SC and Adv. Ori on 10 December and Chair Adv. Lindi SC, Adv. Aslam SC, Attorney Tasneem, Attorney Abigail and Adv. Samantha on 17 November. We welcome President Madillo as our Alumni Director as from 9 October and Attorney Abigail as our Company Secretary on 30 November, unanimously elected owing to her vital contribution in drafting our MOI. Founding Directors Educator Rashida, Attorney Zaahira and Adv. Ayesha rejoice in the skills and talent now manifest in our Board and Alumni Think Tanks. We are excited about the Alumni NEC elections 2020 brings. Vuk’uzenzele. Halala Biko!

Malibongwe Passionate Intelligentsia for golden contributions. Joyous dive into 2020.

Ubuntu,
Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President

On this World Aids Day, we reflect upon pursuits to actualise Dignity, Equality and Freedoms infused in Ubuntu and Zenzele, the heart of our movements.

SABWiL Alumni Deputy President (DP) Boitumelo Nqai and Alumnus Sibusiso Mahlangu participate in SAMLA Medical Mediation training. Halala Genoa, Azlyn Creative and SAMLA for creating learning opportunities for SABWiL Alumni.

DP Boitumelo earned her passage into our Alumni fold by SABWiL Shadowing Adv. Malcolm Lennox in February 2017 whilst Alumnus Sibusiso starred as counsel advancing freedom of expression section 16 rights in our inaugural SABWiL Human Rights Court in 2016. For the case scenario and heads of argument filed explore sabwil.org.za and enjoy the proceedings on SABWiL YouTube.

Our Alumni are unstoppable in surpassing excellence. With opportunities, they infuse themselves in Medical Mediation training offered by SAMLA under the chair of Judge Claassen. Constitutional founding values of Dignity, Equality and Freedoms are alive in mediations. For more, contemplate proposed Rule 41A and join the SAMLA courses. Ubuntu.

What a gem that Attorney Mashudu Kutama, elected on 23 November 2019 as the Black Lawyers Association President, graced our inaugural SABWiL Alumni Think Tank led by President Madillo Mofokeng and hosted by BBM Law on 17 November 2018! Halala, BLA President.

We salute this timeless leadership and unending service. Vuk’uzenzele.

In periods from October to November 2019, LLB graduate Meagan Ruthman delights in the SABWiL Shadow of Adv. Malcolm Lennox. Section 23 of our Constitution roars in #SS26 as CCMA and Labour Court suits actualise the right to fair labour practice. Urgent labour court proceedings, trials, settlements, preparations, arguments and consultations were orders of the day. We thank Adv. Lennox for his sterling skills contributions. In October, Meagan participated in our Wills Clinic led by Attorney Candice Pillay. Well done, Meagan.

Wathint’abafazi wathint’imbokodo.

We thank our Passionate Intelligentsia for developing our youth in law so that Dignity, Equality and Freedoms infused in Ubuntu and Zenzele reign.

Ubuntu,
Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President

Malibongwe! Halala! South African Rugby shifts paradigms. Three world cups affirm our glory. We are a champion nation. Victorious, Captain Siya Kolisi impresses: ‘A lot of us in South Africa just need an opportunity.” 2019 Rugby World Cup

Undoubtedly, if we toil to actualise Dignity, Equality and Freedoms, the founding values of our Constitution as espoused in section 1, Act 108 of 1996, lives in and through us.

Vuk’uzenzele. Ubuntu.

SABWiL Hogan Lovells Clinic

LLB graduate Meagan Ruthman, joined by our aspirant lawyers Mercy Masunda, Mishka Hansraj and Njabulo Vuma, delights in serving the Evaton community led by Luminary Attorney Candice Pillay and the Hogan Lovells team. Dignity, equality and freedoms are infused in the conversations of the day as the formalities of the Wills Act No. 7 of 1953, take life. When last have we updated our last testaments? Are our wills even valid? Do we perhaps believe we have no need of this as yet? Is facing death and our mortality the secret dissuasion? Wathint’abafazi wathint’imbokodo.

#SS25 SABWiL Shadowing

Aspirant lawyers Nthabiseng Nkopane and Clement Mabasa are welcomed into Swartz Attorneys, a firm with infinite expertise in medico-legal practice. Herein lay the genesis for Nthabiseng’s passion for medical law. She now chooses final year electives differently, having been moved deeply by her time with Swartz Attorneys.

Halala Clement for maximising opportunity after opportunity. Prior to #SS25 Clement served for two Saturdays in Dobsonville and Kagiso Clinics led by Attorney Candice Pillay.

Our youth relish each moment in the care of Swartz Attorneys. We applaud seasoned Attorney Denise Swartz for leading the programme. Letter writing, consultation techniques, case reading, drafting, ethics, court and hospital visits and so much more became orders of these days. Every person embodying Swartz Attorneys touched the hearts and minds of our youth. No words can express the value of imparting skills to our incoming generation of lawyers. Soar Nthabiseng and Clement! Do us proud. Dignity, as espoused in section 10 of the Constitution, Act 108 of 1996, lives in #SS25 in the care of Luminary Attorney Swartz. Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe.

Malibongwe, Luminaries. Thank you. Without giving hearts, we are but nought. Halala, Youth in Law. Indeed, Luck= (Preparation + Opportunity) = Success.

Ubuntu,
Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President

It is a delight to once more soar above the battlefields and cast a heavenly view over the terrain where we draw swords towards the actualisation of Dignity, Equality and Freedoms. This month, global Mental Health Day came and went, quiet as the night, barely traversing the legal landscape. There are diamonds that light the way. Hereunder, are some October sparkles. If refreshing in an oasis beckons, read on.

Basadi Ba Molao mentorship workshop

SABWiL Luminary Adv. Anthea Platt SC, who in 2017 led our SABWiL Human Rights Court (SHRC) passing judgment on compensation for expropriation in land disputes as our #s25 SHRC Chief Justice (CJ),hosted the Basadi Ba Moloa leadership day as the founder thereof.

SABWiL was represented at this mentorship workshop by SABWiL Founder, CEO, Adv. Ayesha Tiry. SABWiL Alumna Pupil- Adv. Malebo Matome attended as an emissary for Woza. Halala Woza for calling upon our Alumni to serve as your delegate. SABWiL joins arms with Woza and Basadi Ba Molao in support of those ideals and objectives which infuse constitutional values in our legal landscapes.

Upon endorsement by our Alumni NEC, we perchance may be privy to highlights of this occasion penned by Alumna Adv. Malebo, who joined our fold after submissions on freedom of expression rights as lead counsel in our 2016 inaugural SHRC led by #s16 SHRC CJ Adv. Lindi Nkosi-Thomas SC. Our SABWiL NPC Board also enjoys Adv. Nkosi-Thomas SC at the helm as our Chair. We thank Basadi Ba Molao for including SABWiL in vital dialogue. Halala! We rejoice now that Alumna Adv. Malebo passed the advocacy training examinations and heartily welcome her into legal practice. Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe.

SABWiL Hogan Lovells Clinics

Alumna Nonhlanhla Masuku serves in media law matters at the Dobsonville Clinic whilst Alumnus Ndisha Godoni adds value about the Sexual Offences Act in the Eldorado Park Clinic, led by Luminary Attorney Candice Pillay. We laud Luminary Adv. Ryan Kay who led Alumnus Ndisha in our May 2018 SABWiL Shadowing (#SS) programme at the Gauteng Local Division, so paving Ndisha’s access into our fold. We celebrate Alumna Nonhlanhla’s passage into our movement as she successfully SABWiL Shadows Luminary Adv. Boitumelo Molojoa in our April 2018 #SS programme.

In December 2018 Alumna Nonhlanhla tackled section 29, right to education, issues in our SHRC led by SHRC CJ Adv. Liza Tsatsi SC, SHRC Deputy CJ Adv. Tiny Seboko and SHRC Justice Attorney Abigail Ronald-Louw. The Respondents, for whom Alumna Nonhlanhla acted, submitted that the funding of sanitary pads cannot to be part of the policies for education and falls within the health budget, to pass constitutional muster. For more, do peruse the case scenario and heads of argument filed in this suit which is accessible at www.sabwil.org.za. A record of the SHRC proceedings is published on our SABWiL YouTube Channel. The majority and dissenting judgments flowing from the submissions are interesting indeed. Wathint’abafazi wathint’imbokodo.

Halala SABWiL Luminaries Adv. Tsatsi SC, Adv. Tiny Seboko, Attorney Ronald-Louw, Adv. Ryan Kay, Adv. Boitumelo Molojoa and countless others for instilling vital values in our Alumni. Today, these Alumni serve society and continue their evolution in the Luminary light of seasoned Attorney Candice Pillay. We are delighted at our Alumni excellence and laud our Luminaries.

Ubuntu.

Speed Date Mentoring

Halala! Our Women in Law Univ. of Pretoria aspirant lawyers are commended for this sterling initiative of speed dates in law. Learning this way is personalised and such fun.

SABWiL Founder, CEO Adv. Ayesha was welcomed by the Univ. of Pretoria Women in Law leadership as one of the erudite mentors present in order to impart knowledge and experience through speed legal dating. This inaugural event is deeply infused in Zenzele and Ubuntu. It is driven by a thirst to surpass excellence. Vuk’uzenzele.

May this be the first of many such dates in law. SABWiL wishes the University of Pretoria Women in Law every success in actualising Dignity, Equality and Freedoms and stands tall beside our youth in law in the fight for equal opportunity. Well done aspirant lawyers Molatelo Tlowana, MG Maphakela and all our clever aspirant lawyers who worked towards this momentous occasion. Siyaphambile!

We thank our Passionate Intelligentsia for invaluable contributions to our movement. We are the change. Now.

Ubuntu,
Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President

Once again at the close of Heritage Month we reflect, account and measure our progress towards actualising Dignity, Equality and Freedoms. We invite you into moments with us through the pictorials attached hereto.

#SS24 SABWiL Shadowing

This SABWiL Shadowing programme we have been refining since its inception in 2016. We recall with deep gratitude how our #SS pioneer, Luminary Adv. Teresa Engelbrecht, with passionate intelligence established the first footprints of SABWiL Shadowing in #SS1 with Alumna Lolo Tshehla.

Three years later #SS24 moves our legal landscape. In 2017 SABWiL Alumnus Boitumelo Sekgala achieved membership into our movement through sterling advocacy led by our #s25 SHRC Chief Justice Adv. Gcina Malindi SC. True to form Alumnus Boitumelo yet again stars in SABWiL Shadowing. In celebration of Heritage month, Attorney Notary Brett Thomson leads Alumnus Boitumelo into practice. We applaud Luminary Attorney Notary Thomson for his service in developing tomorrow’s legal practitioners. We welcome him as our Luminary. Undoubtedly Alumnus Boitumelo is enriched at this phenomenal experience at BBM Law in the SABWiL Shadow of Luminary Attorney Notary Brett Thomson.

SABWiL Hogan Lovells Kagiso Clinics

Luminary Attorney Candice Pillay leads the Kagiso Wills Clinic with the aid of Alumna Prudence Mathe, Alumna Regine Moagi and aspirant lawyer Clement Mabasa.

Alumna Regine pioneered our Clinic. A time ago she earned her membership into our movement by SABWiL Shadowing our Luminary Adv. Tiny Seboko. Alumna Prudence, who accessed our fold by SABWiL Shadowing Luminary Adv. James Magodi successfully, serves joyously too. Adv. Liza Tsatsi SC served as our #s29 SHRC Chief Justice in 2018 when Alumnus Prudence argued about whether the provision of sanitary pads was lawfully excluded from the education budget. We thank Luminary Advocates Tsatsi SC, Seboko and Magodi for instilling critical values in our Alumni. Today these Alumni serve society and continue their evolution in the Luminary light of seasoned Attorney Candice Pillay, a partner at Hogan Lovells. We are delighted at our Alumni excellence and laud our Luminaries. Ubuntu.

SABWiL SLS Critical Legal Thinking Workshop

The SABWiL SLS Critical Legal Thinking workshop is received with enthusiasm by those legal practitioners and aspirant lawyers who joined us for the day. Halala Expert Jimmy Kyriacou for such provocative pearls and sparkling diamonds. Welcome to our Luminary fold.

SABWiL Alumna Pupil-Adv. Malebo Matome starred by sharing her journey to advocacy. Alumna Adv. Matome achieved alumni conferment bedazzling us with freedom of expression submissions in our 2016 SHRC led by #s16 SHRC Chief Justice Adv. Lindi Nkosi-Thomas SC.

We are inspired by Alumnus Boitumelo Sekgala who co-founded the Student Litigation Society (SLS) in 2018. Alumnus Boitumelo delights as a junior counsel in our 2017 SHRC led by SHRC CJ Adv. Malindi SC. Soon thereafter SLS is birthed. Dare we say we played a hand? We applaud SLS Prosper, Kagiso, Cleo, our Alumni NEC and the many others for sterling pearls embedded in prose gifted to us this fun day. Vuk’uzenzele.

We thank our Passionate Intelligentsia. Without giving hearts, we are but nought. Siyaphambile!

Ubuntu.
Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President

]]> https://www.sabwil.org.za/sabwil-times-issue-2/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:56:30 +0000 http://www.sabwil.org.za/?p=720 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 

Joyous Day SABWiL Luminaries and Friends

We hope you are wonderful. If you have a moment or two, enjoy a snapshot of much needed recent community service in Dobsonville rendered by SABWiL and led by our Luminary Attorney Candice Pillay this very Saturday, 14 September. SABWiL Alumna Regine Moagi, who earned her passage into our movement by shadowing Adv. Tiny Seboko, along with Clement Mabasa pioneered our involvement. Vuk’uzenzele. The clinics are at times in Dobsonville and Eldorado Park. The inaugural day was about succession laws given the imminent Wills Week. With the help of seasoned Attorney Candice this may be the first of many a learning occasion for our Alumni. Without giving hearts, we are but nought. Igama lamakhosikazi malibongwe. In addition, please carefully consider the statements of our Alumni attached hereto pursuant to the BLAsc SABWiL Alumni Gender Summit held on 31 August 2019. We thank Honorary Alumnus Mogowe Mangena and Alumna Nthabiseng Motsie for penning such provocative prose on 14 September. We reminisce over those days when our Alumna Nthabiseng earned rights into our Alumni fold by successfully shadowing Luminary Adv. Boitumelo Molojoa. Wathint ‘abafazi wathint ’imbokodo. Thank you for contributing to our movement.

Ubuntu.

Adv. Ayesha and President Madillo 
SABWiL Founder, CEO and Alumni President