Judge Mjali shares her wisdom with LAW Students “Wathint’umfazi, wathint’imbokodo”; a phrase Dr Mrwetyana, the University of Fort Hare Registrar, acknowledged has become synonymous with the courage and resilience of women the world over, was the prevailing theme at the Law Faculty’s OCJ Women’s Lecture that was given by Judge Nozuko Mjali at the East London Campus. Born in Libode in the Eastern Cape into a family of teachers and nurses, Judge Mjali decided to take the road less travelled when she went to study towards her BA LAW degree at the University of the Western Cape. Studying in a Varsity whose language of instruction was primarily Afrikaans, she professed that her road to triumph was not easy, likening her high school background to that of some of the students of the University of Fort Hare. Despite the challenges encountered, she managed to attain her degree mitment to putting women in key positions in the legal and later her LLM in Commercial Law at Cardiff Univer- field. There are now female judges in almost every divisity in Wales. The Judge recognised that women were sion of the law, a drastic increase from only two female fighting for recognition for what they deserve by doing judges in pre-Constitutional South Africa. She said that their jobs to the best of their ability, with integrity and despite this improvement; “a lot still needs to be accomaccording to the law. “The profession’s glass ceiling has plished both in the professional and the moral landscape been pierced”, the judge stated; SA has seen greater com-
of the country”.
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