Names: Mvuzo Notyesi
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Region: KwaZulu Natal & Eastern Cape Division Practitioners
Province: Eastern Cape
Designation: Advocate
Bio: Mvuzo Notyesi is a career legal practitioner. At present he is a director of Mvuzo Notyesi Incorporated. He has served as a Council member for the Law Society of South Africa. He started his legal profession as a candidate attorney and worked his way up to be admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. He has vast experience as a leader, manager, mentor and trainer. Mr Notyesi mentored and trained no less than 20 young practitioners, both females and males who now have their own successful practices. He presided over various institutions and bodies within the legal profession and as such, brings vast experience of leadership. His practice focuses on High Court litigation, both in civil and criminal litigation. Mr Notyesi has been directly involved in complex public interest court cases. Mr Notyesi is a human rights lawyer, disciplined, focused and professional with high levels of integrity and ethics. Mr Notyesi is not aware of any investigations against him and has no criminal convictions nor pending criminal cases. There are no applications for his striking or interdict. He holds a valid Fidelity Fund Certificate and his office is tax compliant. He is the President of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL). He has been President of the Law Society of South Africa and former Co-Chair Person. He had served as a board member of the LPFF.
Tertiary Education
Qualification B.Proc, LLB
Tertiary Institution University of Transkei
Year 1993 - 1998
Career Details, Experience and Leadership Positions:
Admitted as an attorney in 1999;
Director of Mvuzo Notyesi Incorporated since October 1999;
Elected as one of the first members of the LPFF and is currently serving as such until end of term in October;
Appointed part time lecturer at University of Transkei in 1999 up to 2002;
Legal Aid Board member from January 2011 until 2014;
Council member of the Cape of Good Hope Law Society from January 2011 until 2016. Served as a council member of the Law Society of South Africa from 2016 until to date. Since 2016 to 2018 had been Co-Chair of the Law Society of South Africa and in 2019 to 2020 became the President of the Law Society of South Africa;
Appointed as a member of the Judicial Service Commission in 2016 up to 2018 and has once again been appointed from April 2022 to 2025;Acting Judge of the High Court, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape Division from January 2021 to March 2021
International Engagements
Representative of Law Society of South Africa in the following bodies :
BRICS
PALU
IBA
SADLA
Commonwealth
