A couple of high-flying legal eagles, who graduated from WSU\u2019s law programme, are primed to showcase their legal prowess and astuteness on the continental stage following their election into the Southern African Development Community Lawyers\u2019 Association (SADC LA) executive council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One half of this dynamic duo is Butterworth-born attorney, Noxolo Maduba, a 21-year veteran of the legal profession who obtained her BProc Degree from WSU\u2019s law department in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maduba, who specialises in civil and commercial litigation, while also dabbling in family law, currently heads her own legal firm as director of aptly named \u2018Maduba Attorneys Incorporated\u2019 in Manguaung in the Free State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was elected during the SADC Lawyers Association annual conference and general meeting, held on March 24-25 in Boksburg. It truly is an honour to be representing my country within the SADC region and more specially to serve in the top five of the SADC LA council,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maduba\u2019s election into the association is yet another feather in her cap, which further solidifies her impact in the country\u2019s law fraternity, after having served on numerous other bodies, including the Legal Practice Council as chairperson of the risk and compliance committee (current), and being elected as the second president of the South African Women Lawyers Association during its infancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All those skills, experience, knowledge, and insight will prove invaluable as an executive of the association as she will be at the forefront and charged with strengthening, defending and advancing the rule of law in the SADC region and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An avid enthusiast for the arts, former WSU convocation president, Zincedile Tiya, an attorney of the high court in Mthatha, said he fell in love with law after witnessing the high discipline and decorum in a court of law as depicted in one of the scenes of Unyana Womntu<\/span>, a South African television drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI liked how, in that TV drama, during one of the court cases, everybody would stand up and rise when the magistrate would walk into the court. I mostly loved how the different lawyers from the two different sides would argue their cases to outwit and out manoeuvre the other. This is what makes law one of the greatest professions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiya, who was born and bred in Mthatha, was especially proud of the role the university has played over the years in his and hundreds of others\u2019 journeys of fulfilling their dreams of becoming attorneys, advocates, and judges, due to the university\u2019s willingness to open doors of learning to the poorest and most marginalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe WSU law degree is quite unique, looking at the context of the university \u2013 its socioeconomic background and context \u2013 and yet its ability to produce products that are of highest quality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn South Africa, wherever you find lawyers you will find products of WSU in leadership positions,\u201d Tiya said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tiya obtained his LLB degree from the institution in 2011 and was later admitted as an attorney of the high court in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A couple of high-flying legal eagles, who graduated from WSU\u2019s 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