Ms Mondo Mazwai
ChairpersonBJuris, LLB
Mondo Mazwai served as a Tribunal member since 2013 and in August 2019 was appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa as the first female and black Chairperson of the Competition Tribunal.
Ms Mazwai has over 24 years of experience in competition law, having joined the Competition Commission in 1999 as an investigator in the Mergers & Acquisitions Division. Ms Mazwai was later appointed as a senior investigator in the Enforcement & Exemptions Division. She was appointed as Chief Legal Counsel and Acting Deputy Commissioner of the Commission in 2003.
After leaving the Commission, Ms Mazwai joined the law firm Cliffe Dekker (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) in 2005 as a Director in its Competition Department. In 2006, she was appointed as the national head of Cliffe Dekker’s Competition Law Department. Her practice spanned all aspects of competition law and she represented firms in both the private and public sectors.
Ms Mazwai obtained her B Juris degree from the University of the Western Cape and her LLB degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, after which she worked for Cheadle Thompson and Haysom Attorneys as a Candidate Attorney in 1995, Professional Assistant in 1997 and Associate Partner in 1999.