Our Team

Our Team

Our highly skilled staff goes above and beyond what is required

We have a diverse staff complement of over 50 individuals. This includes 6 directors who lead our firm, 16 legal practitioners, consultants, and professional assistants, 6 candidate legal practitioners in training, and 26 specialised personnel dedicated to providing general support and administrative functions.

Meet our Directors:

Phatudi Maponya

Founder & Director

25 years+

B. Proc, LLB, H. Dip Company Law

Corporate Law and regulatory issues, high profile government matters, mergers and acquisitions and competition law issues.

Founder of South Africa’s leading black law firm. Oliver Empowerment and Topco Media’s Business Leader of the Year in 2016. Special advisor to government ministers and government institutions on frequent occasions.

Lynne du Toit-Koen

Chairperson

25 years+

BLC, LLB, Cert. Advanced Insolvency Litigation, Cert. Business Rescue, Cert. Compliance Management

Corporate Law and Regulatory issues, Procurement Law, Constitutional Law, Personal Injury Law

Revision of multi million rand SLA’s on behalf of SOE’s
Advisor on procurement processes for SOE’s
Member of LPC Investigating, Disciplinary & Mediation Committee
LPC Board Examiner

Palesa Ledwaba

CEO

11 years (10 post admission)

Tax Law – well-versed with the Customs & Excise Act; Tax Administration Act, and Income Tax Act
Administrative Law
Conducting and Chairing inquiries/investigations
Contract Law – drafting and interpretation; well-versed with NEC contracts
Corporate Law, Drafting of agreements as well as advise on Statutory Compliance 

Being the youngest serving CEO since the incorporation of the firm
Heading the establishment of a then new branch to the firm in 2014 (Mafikeng branch)
Gauteng Branch Deputy Chairperson of the Black Lawyers Association
Appointed to serve in committees of the Provincial Legal Practice Council
Litigating in the Constitutional Court
Playing an instrumental part in the successful opposition of various tax reviews and appeals involving capital well over billions, for SARS, including an appeal against high profiled individuals, prominent mines and one involving military goods worth $83million
Representing a client in a multi-million construction agreement dispute
Pro-bona services: partnering with institutions such as ProBono.org, Funanani Trust, Dream Team Foundation, Pledge a Pad movement, National Association of persons with Cerebral Palsy and the Soweto Association of persons living with Disabilities.

Tasneem Antulay

Director

25 years

B.Proc, Cert in Accounting, Advanced Cert in Labour Law

Administrative Law, Labour Law, Third Party Litigation

Previous CEO of Maponya Inc, Acting Judge

Lettah Seefane

Director

9 years+

Manager of the Maponya Inc Mahikeng branch

7 years+

Manager of the Maponya Inc Mahikeng branch

Regulatory and Compliance investigations, Civil litigation, Contract law, Liason with State Owned entities, Trial Advocacy.

Outstanding performer in Personal Injury claims, Divorce and Insolvency Law at the School for Legal Practice

Thapelo Tlale

Candidate Attorney

Second year of articles

LLB, LLM Candidate

Administrative law, Commercial law and Civil litigation

Certificate of Merit for outstanding service as a student tutor (NWU)-(2021), appointed by Law Clinic (NWU) to act as a presiding officer at the PROVINCIAL SCHOOLS MOOT COMPETITION (2022), appointed as Student assistant for FACULTY OF LAW(NWU)-(2022)

Trevor Shongwe

Attorney

5 years

General Litigation and Corporate law work

Administration of Deceased Estates

Family Law

Personal Injury

Litigated on behalf of an Institution of higher learning;
Successfully securing bail applications for clients;

Litigated on behalf of a client against the government for tender awarding irregularities;

Litigating in the Constitutional Court

Formed part of the firm’s team that provided a legal opinion to a client which is a high profile church during the lockdown period , that sought to Litigate against government.

Mandisa Tshabalala

Attorney

1 year +

Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

Administrative law, Tax law & Commercial litigation

 


Wits School of Law Dean’s Merit certificate (2019 & 2020)
Wits School of Humanities Certificate of Merit (2018)
Golden Key International Honour Society membership (2017)
Wits School of Humanities Certificate of First Class (2016)

Thabang Maponya

 Attorney

1 year +  Attorney

Deceased Estates, Labour law, Legal costs, Family law, Third party Litigation and debt collection.

Tshegofatso Morake

Attorney; Conveyancer

8 years (6 years post admission);

Conveyancing and Notarial deeds, Transfers, Bond registrations, Bond cancellations, Opening of sectional title schemes, Consolidation and Subdivisions, Expropriations, Deceased estates, Ante nuptial and Post nuptial contracts, Registration of Servitudes.

Heading the Conveyancing department successfully.

Malebo Mello

Candidate attorney

Conveyancing (2007-2022) and First year Candidate Attorney

Conveyancing; Personal Injury; Commercial Law; Family Law and Legal Costs

 

Oratile Mabotho

Candidate Attorney

Vacation Student at Maponya Incorporated (2019)
First Year Candidate Attorney (2022-Current)

LLB (Bachelor of Laws)


Corporate Law
Company Law
Delictual Law
Contract Law

Golden Key International Honour Society membership (2019)

Student Facilitator at North West University(2020)

Deputy Chairperson of the North West University Law Student Council (2020-2021)

Secretary in the Office of the Legal Affairs Officer of the Student Campus Council at North West University (2020-2021)

 

Contact us today still for outstanding legal advice

Learning from the past, excelling in the present and evolving into the future, Maponya prides itself on supplying outstanding legal services to current and future clients. With specialised knowledge, highly skilled lawyers and extremely efficient support staff, Maponya continues to expand its reputation as a premier law firm both in South Africa and beyond.

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