Our Team
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Our staff
Johannesburg
TERESA YATES
NATIONAL DIRECTOR
Teresa Yates has been appointed as the National Director of ProBono.Org. Formerly the Deputy National Director of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC).
NOMASWAZI MALINGA
REGIONAL MANAGER
Nomaswazi joined ProBono.Org in July 2015 as the staff attorney in the family law department. She finds this role very challenging and looks forward to helping her clients with the assistance of her fellow colleagues.
MPHO MOGODI
STAFF ATTORNEY
After matriculating from King Edward VII High School, Mpho enrolled for a BA at Wits University to major in International Relations and Political Science. He then graduated with an LLB degree from the University of South Africa in 2017.
Mpho’s love for the law stems from wanting to bring about positive change and to advocate against social ills and injustices. He also strongly believes in the value of being of service to others.
In his spare time Mpho enjoys mountain biking, meditating, studying philosophy and trying out Johannesburg’s restaurants. Mpho heads up the housing, deceased estates and refugee department.
MARGARET FISH
OPERATIONS, GRANTS & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
Margaret is from Johannesburg and joined Probono.Org in March 2015, having many years’ experience in communications and events management in both local and international NGOs.
BENITA PAVLICEVIC
HR Consultant (MBA), M.Phil (Applied Ethics)
NKULI ZUKE
RECEPTIONIST
Nkuli is ProBono.Org’s receptionist and administrator. She is the first person that clients see when they consult ProBono.Org. She does the initial screening and makes appointments with Pro.Bono.Org’s lawyers and staff.
ELSABE STEENHUISEN
CHILD LAW CONSULTANT
Elsabe has been involved with ProBono.Org since 2011. She volunteered at its Help Desk at Johannesburg Civil Regional Divorce Court (Aug. 2011 – Nov. 2018); consulted part-time on the South and East Rand project (Apr. 2013 – Aug. 2015), and became the part-time consultant for the OCAY (One-Child-a-Year) project (Jul. 2016 to date).
GIVEN MAZIBUKO
OFFICE MANAGER
Given joined ProBono.Org as a Financial Administrator in November 2019 and was later promoted to Office Manager when the post became available. Given loves working with people and finds her job both challenging and enjoyable as she interacts with people from all walks of life.
PRETICA SINGH
FINANCIAL MANAGER
Zamashandu Mbatha
PARALEGAL
Zamashandu has been appointed as the paralegal working on the undocumented minors and
refugee project. She grew up in Soweto and studied bookkeeping after passing matric. She later
worked as a bank teller and then got an opportunity to work at the Legal Resources Centre as a
Finance Intern. She started taking an interest in the cases at the LRC once she moved to the Human
Resources Department as an assistant. This led to paralegal studies and she began to assist the
attorneys and senior paralegals with running of workshops. Zama looks forward to working at
ProBono.Org, learning more about the clients and finding the correct legal remedies to assist them.
Welcome Zama.
Fina Diba
ADMINISTRATOR
Nonkululeko Namatshaka
GENERAL WORKER
Lesego Vakalisa
COORDINATOR – VARSITY COLLEGE PROGRAMME
Nomvula Sibeko
INTERN
Masontaga Malatja
INTERN
Durban
NICOLE DAYANAND
REGIONAL MANAGER
Nicole Dayanand completed her LLB degree at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in 2012. She completed her articles and was admitted as an attorney in 2014. Nicole was in private practice for five years and has experience in both High Court and Magistrates Court litigation. Her area of speciality is corporate / commercial law. She joined Probono.Org in January 2020 and is passionate about social justice.
GUGULETHU MAKHANYA
ADMINISTRATOR
PEARL KHUMALO
STAFF ATTORNEY
ABIA MUKANDAMA
INTERN
NOLWAZI KHAMBULE
INTERN
Cape Town
UZAIR ADAMS
REGIONAL MANAGER
Uzair is the Manager of our Cape Town office. Born and bred in Cape Town, he expressed a keen interest in community upliftment early on in his life and his passion for people and making a difference in the lives of the underprivileged inspired him to pursue a career in law.
MASI NCUBE
STAFF ATTORNEY
Masi’s interest in social justice and effecting transformative change through law prompted him to join the ProBono.Org team. He started his legal journey at Stellenbosch University where he was an
active member of various human rights organisations. Thereafter, he completed his articles of clerkship and was admitted as an attorney in 2020. After being retained by his previous employer as an associate, he gained further experience in Magistrates’ Court and High Court litigation. Motivated by the needs of marginalised and vulnerable groups, Masi seeks to uphold the spirit of the
Constitution through his work at ProBono.Org.
Faith Adeniji
INTERN
Our board
Ilan Lax
Attorney
Wendel Bloem
Director at Mkhabela Huntley Attorneys
Teresa Yates
National Director
Mohamed Randera
Chairperson of ProBono.Org
Khalik Mayet
Discovery Health : Head - Legal Services
Meluleki Nzimande
Chief Commissioner, International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa.
Sayi Nindi
Director, Malatji & Co Attorneys
Candice Pillay
Litigation lawyer with Norton Rose Fulbright SA Inc. and co-head of the Social Impact team with Liesl Williams.
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Newcomers
Sayi Nindi and Meluleki Nzimande join the ProBono.Org Board
At their meeting in June 2020 the ProBono.Org board resolved to appoint two additional members to the board, Sayi Nindi and Meluleki Nzimande.
