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I am a Lawyer by profession and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Limpopo.
I teach Commercial Law to Accounting & Auditing students.

My research interests fall within two broad categories:

(a) The scholarship of teaching & learning which includes reflections on my teaching of non-law students a law module and how I can make Commercial law accessible to my students who only start interacting with a law module at the second level of their studies;
(b) My LLD studies focused on the right to a nationality for stateless children, using the principle of umuntu ngu muntu nga banye abantu which translates to mean "I am because we are" also known as "ubuntu" in Isizulu to underpin legal reform in the South African immigration laws. Ubuntu is not unique to South Africa and it is embodied in the inclusivity of African communalism. Using the international and regional legal frameworks to protect marginalised communities especially children who are born stateless and are not recognised as nationals by the laws of any country.

• Statelessness can be attributed to the fact that some children are born in a migratory context, from parents who are refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented, and are unable to prove their connection to any other country. 
• Statelessness creates a situation where children are exposed to human rights abuses such as child trafficking, enslavement, and protracted detentions.
• Sweden and South Africa have ratified the Convention of the Rights of Children of 1989 (amongst other Human Rights Conventions) which entrenches the best interest of the child as central to everything that involves the child.  A recommendation includes allowing children to have a voice in matters that affect and involve them not simply as outsiders but as active participants in decisions that impact their lives.