Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar

Current

• Advocate
  Johannesburg Society of Advocates
  The Protea Group
  Effective 2026

Former

• Pupil advocate
  Johannesburg Society of Advocates
  Victoria Mxenge Group of Advocates
  2025

• Curator: Public Engagement
  Constitutional Court Trust
  Constitutional Court of South Africa
  2018–2024 (promoted in 2022)

• Public Programmes Coordinator
  NWU Gallery
  North-West University
  2017

• PhD
  Dikgang Moseneke Fellow (2022–2024) and Mellon scholar (2022)
  Centre for Rhetoric Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town
  2022–current
  Also awarded the Sir William Solomons Memorial Scholarship (2023) and a Wilfred Kramer Law Grant (2023).

My PhD is focussed on the aesthetic and cultural transformation of South African law and jurisprudence after apartheid through an analysis of the Constitutional Court’s symbolism, including its logo, building architecture, art collection and the notion of ‘justice under a tree’.

• LLM
  Media law (research dissertation) – cum laude
  North-West University (2017–2019)
  Awarded by NWU Law: Outstanding Academic Achievement in Masters of Law Research – Cum Laude.

My masters degree is focussed on the regulation of the South African print and broadcast media.

• LLB
  North-West University (2013–2016)
  Awarded a Legal Practitioners Fidelity Fund bursary.

Professional development (selected)

• Protea International Curatorial Exchange, John Ellerman Foundation
  Visiting scholar to the UK Supreme Court and UK Parliament, London (April 2022)
  Research award and selected participant

• Law Scholars Works-in-Progress workshop, hosted by the Centre for Law and Society (Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town) at the Bertha Retreat, Western Cape (May 2024)
  Selected participant

• Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin
  Theoretical Thinking and Writing in Art (certificate course, 2020)

Publications (selected)

• Klyntji: Founding and publishing editor (2014–2024)
  Klyntji, a registered Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) and Non-Profit Organisation (NPO), publishes an online Afrikaans journal (klyntji.com) and an annual literary zine (Ons Klyntji), focussed on diverse and progressive South African arts & culture.

• Chapter contribution for TransAfrica: The Languages of Postqueerness
  Academic book published by Bloomsbury (2024)

• Art & Justice: A short monograph series published by the Constitutional Court Trust (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024)

• Op-eds and articles: Mail&Guardian’s Thought Leader, DG Murray Trust’s The Human Factor, LitNet, Without Prejudice law magazine

Guest lectures and presentations (selected)

• Department of Art History, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2024)

• Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (2024)

• Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg (2022)

• Stellenbosch University Museum (2021)

• School of the Arts, University of Pretoria (2021)

• North-West University (2019)

Conferences (selected)

• Argumentation 2023: Performativity in Law conference
  Masaryk University, Faculty of Law, Brno, Czech Republic
  Presenter
  Awarded UCT doctoral travel grant

• World Congress of Constitutional Law 2024
  University of Johannesburg, South Africa
  Presenter

• South African Museums Association National Conference (2021, 2022)
  Presenter
  Awarded FitzSimons Award for best paper presented at the SAMA National Conference 2021

Society (selected)

• NWU Gender Benefit Network (university organisation)
  Contributing member (2017–2019)

• Black Lawyers Association, Student Chapter NWU Potchefstroom, Branch Executive Committee
  Media & Publicity Officer (2016)

Including:

• Administrative and public

• Commercial

• Competition

• Constitutional and human rights

• Contract

• Defamation

• Environmental

• General litigation and motions

• Heritage and preservation

• Intellectual property

• Media and entertainment