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Winter Graduation PROGRAMME FACULTY OF LAW 21 JUNE 2021 UNIVERSITY SENIOR OFFICERS Chancellor: Dean, Faculty of Law: Advocate DB Ntsebeza SC, (BA) (SA), BProc (SA), LLB (Unitra) (WSU), LLM Doctor N Lubisi, B Juris (UFH), LLB (UFH), Advanced Certificate in Labour (International Law) (UCT) Law (Unisa), LLM in Labour Law (UFH), LLD (UFH) Vice-Chancellor and Principal: Dean, Faculty of Education: Professor S Buhlungu, BA History and Political Science (UNITRA), BA Hons Professor VS Mncube, STD (Eshowe College); BA, BA (Hons) & Bed African Studies (UCT), MA Industrial Sociology (WITS), PhD Sociology (WITS) (University of Zululand); CLAIT (ICT) and IBTII (ICT) (Bourneville TVET College, UK); MEd, PGCR & PhD (University of Birmingham, UK) Chairperson of Council: Bishop I Abrahams, BTh (Rhodes University), BA Hons (UCT), Postgraduate Dean, Faculty of Management and Commerce: Certificate of Special Studies, CSS (Berkeley, US), MTh (UKZN)Cum Laude Doctor N Wayi, BCom (Rhodes), MCom (UP), PhD (North West) Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Administration: Acting Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences: Professor R Vithal, BA (Hons), UHDE (UDW); BEd (UN); MPhil (Cambridge); Professor L van Niekerk, B.A, B. Theology, B.A. Hons Criminology, Hons in dr.scient (Aalborg) Psych, (Northwest University); Postgrad Dip in Ergonomics (Rhodes); M.A. Counselling Psychology (UJ); M. Sport and Exercise Psychology (KULeuven); Deputy Vice-Chancellor Institutional Support: Phd Psychology (UJ) Doctor O van Heerden, BA Sociology & International Relations, BA Hons International Relations (Wits); MPhil International Relations; PhD Acting Dean, Research and Development: International Relations (Cambridge) Professor M Simatele, B Econ & Soc (Zambia), M Econ. (Dar Es Saalam), M (Learning & Teaching in Higher Ed) Hertfordshire, PhD (Gothenburg) Registrar and Secretary to Senate and Council: Mr N Zuma BPaed (Unizulu); BBibl Hons (UNIN); MIS (UMich) Acting Dean, Student Affairs: Professor P Monyai, BA (Loyola), Hons (UFH), MSc (Dar Es Salaam/UFH/ Acting Dean, Faculty of Science and Agriculture: Zim), PhD (UFH) Professor M Aliber, BA (Religion) Williams College, MA (Public Policy) University of Michigan, PhD (Agricultural and Applied Economics) University President of Convocation: of Wisconsin Advocate A Mini, LLB (UFH) Acting Dean, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities: Professor F H Nekhwevha, B Soc Sc (Hons) (UCT), BA (with Hons), MA (Cambridge) M Soc Sc, PhD (UCT) University of Fort Hare Winter Graduation: 21 June 2021 | FACULTY OF LAW PROGRAMME 1 ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS Faculty of Law Monday, 21 June 2021 • The Chancellor constitutes the congregation for Conferring of Degrees and Awarding of Diplomas: Chancellor, Advocate DB Ntsebeza SC • Welcome address: Vice Chancellor, Professor S Buhlungu • Recipient of Honorary Doctorate and keynote speech: Justice Mandisa Maya • Recipient of Honorary Doctorate and keynote speech: Justice Dikgang Moseneke • Conferring of Degrees and awarding of Diplomas: Chancellor, Advocate DB Ntsebeza SC • Presentation of qualifications to the Chancellor: Dr N Lubisi, Dean, Faculty of Law • Dissolution of the congregation: Chancellor, Advocate DB Ntsebeza SC University of Fort Hare Winter Graduation: 21 June 2021 | FACULTY OF LAW PROGRAMME 2 HONORARY DOCTORAL RECIPIENT JUSTICE MANDISA MAYA Justice Mandisa Muriel Lindelwa Maya is the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA). She holds B.Proc. (University of Transkei), LLB (University of Natal, Durban) and LLM (Duke University, USA) degrees and two LLD (Honoris Causa) degrees, awarded by Nelson Mandela University and Walter Sisulu University in recognition of her contribution to the development of jurisprudence in South Africa as well as the empowerment of women in the legal profession and the judiciary. She is a Fulbright; Georgetown University Law & Gender Program; and Commonwealth Foundation Fellow and is the recipient of the 2020 Duke University Law International Law Alumnus Award. After teaching law at the former University of Transkei, while also practising at the Transkei Society of Advocates, she became a judge and sat in various divisions of the High Court and the Labour Courts before her elevation to the SCA. She became the first woman Deputy President of the SCA in 2015 and its first woman President in 2017. She has acted as a judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Court of Namibia and the Appeal Court of Lesotho. She promoted law reform as the Chairperson of the South African Law Reform Commission and is a member of the South African Judicial Service Commission, the South African Judicial Education Institute, the Commonwealth Association of Law Reform Agencies, the National Bar Examination Board and the Duke University Bolch Judicial Institute Leadership Council. She is the President of the South African Chapter of the Women Judges Association and the Africa Region: Director of the International Association of Women Judges. She also sits in a number of other quasi-judicial and academic organisations. University of Fort Hare Winter Graduation: 21 June 2021 | FACULTY OF LAW PROGRAMME 3 HONORARY DOCTORAL RECIPIENT JUSTICE DIKGANG MOSENEKE Justice 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. Dikgang 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. Moseneke was sentenced in the Supreme Court, Pretoria to 10 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 the BA degree majoring in English and Political Science. Subsequently Moseneke obtained a B Iuris degree and thereafter completed the LLB degree. All three degrees were conferred by the University of South Africa. Shortly after leaving Robben Island, his 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 5 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 chairman 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 2 Division, as it was then known] as an acting judge after which he returned to his practice as a Silk at the Bar. From 1995 to 2001 Moseneke left the Bar to pursue a fulltime corporate career in the following capacities. He has since resigned all these corporate positions: Chairman: Telkom South Africa Limited Chairman: African Merchant Bank Chairman: Metropolitan Life Limited Chairman: African Bank Investments Limited University of Fort Hare Winter Graduation: 21 June 2021 | FACULTY OF LAW PROGRAMME 4 HONORARY DOCTORAL RECIPIENT Chief Executive: New Africa Investments Limited Director: New Africa Publications (Pty) Limited Director: Phaphama Holdings (Pty) Limited Director: Urban Brew (Pty) Limited Chairman: Alisa Car Rental (Pty) Limited (Hertz) Moseneke was elevated to the bench of the High Court Pretoria in 2001 and thereafter he was appointed to the Constitutional Court in 2002 and as the Deputy Chief Justice in 2005. He 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 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 chairman of Project Literacy for over 10 years and as trustee of the Sowetan Nation Building and as Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund for 15 years.3 Moseneke has been keenly associated with tertiary education. In 1986 Moseneke 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 12years. During autumn of
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