Ngcukaitobi at an event in Constitution Hill, October 2019
Born
Tembeka Nicholas Ngcukaitobi
(1976-12-25) 25 December 1976 (age 47)
Cala, Transkei, South Africa
Alma mater
University of Transkei (LLB)
Rhodes University (LLM)
London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM)
Occupations
Advocate
legal scholar
Relatives
Lulama Ngcukaitobi (brother)
Tembeka Nicholas NgcukaitobiSC (born 25 December 1976) is a South African lawyer and legal scholar. An advocate of the Johannesburg Bar since August 2010, he gained silk status in February 2020. He is currently a member of the Judicial Service Commission and a part-time member of the Competition Commission's Competition Tribunal.
Born in the former Transkei, Ngcukaitobi clerked for Justice Arthur Chaskalson on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He spent several years as an attorney for Bowman Gilfillan before joining the bar and the constitutional litigation unit of the Legal Resources Centre. He has since argued in front of the Constitutional Court on behalf of clients including the Economic Freedom Fighters, the Zondo Commission, and President Cyril Ramaphosa.
In addition to his expertise in constitutional and public law, he has experience in competition law, labour law, and land law. He has written two books about land dispossession and land reform, The Land Is Ours (2018) and Land Matters (2021), and he has acted as a judge in the Labour Court, the Land Claims Court, and the High Court of South Africa.
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