Mcebisi Maguga was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in May 2001 after completing his BSoc Science and LLB at the University of Cape Town. After completing his studies, he did an internship in an international law firm called Simpson Tacher Bartlet, based in Manhattan, New York.

After admission he got involved in numerous projects of note being the one relating to the acquisition of locomotives by Transnet. In that regard the law firm Mcebisi Maguga worked for partnered with Webber Wentzel. Mcebisi Mag8ga was part of the project team of professional advisors. The transaction was a funding deal, which took the form of a sale and lease back of the locomotives.

As a practicing attorneys Mcebisi Maguga was involved in the restructuring of various state owned entities such as Eskom corporitization, Telkom Initial Public Offering, introduction of a strategic partner in the mine owned by the Government, unbundling of NAIL, restructuring Johannesburg Fresh Produce, acquisition of land and securing of leases by British Petroleum. The transaction work was in addition to the general commercial and corporate work which Mcebisi Maguga was doing as a practising attorney.

He joined a division of Transnet called South African Port Operations as a senior legal advisor responsible for advising the executive of the South African Port Operations on matters regarding all the South African commercial ports. The most notable project he was involved in was the acquisition of cranes for the various ports. He negotiated Transnet National Ports Authority leases and managed the relationship between SAPO and the port users such as Toyota South Africa, Daimler Chrysler etc.

He subsequently worked as a Director of the Eastern Cape Province advising the Premier of the Eastern Cape on all matters relating to the contracts and agreements of the Eastern Cape Province. He was involved in the set up of the COEGA and in the expropriation of land for redistribution. He subsequently worked for Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa (‘PetroSA”). Most of the projects he was involved in involved funding and the acquisition of oil block in Africa.

After PetroSA he formed Maguga Attorneys Inc. By virtue of working for various state-owned entities and a Government department he developed significant knowledge of public law, environmental law, rail and transport, administrative law, commercial and corporate, labour law, international law, banking and finance.

Thobile Julian Mgengwana was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in August 2001 after completing his BA and LLB at the University of Cape Town, attending the School of Legal Practice and Articles of Clerkship at MacKay-Davidson under the tutelage of Shelley MacKay-Davidson and Gavin Tinkler.

After spending a year at MacKay-Davidson as a head of its Collections Department, Thobile moved to the Road Accident Fund’s Mediation, Arbitration and Litigation Department in 2002 where he spent approximately five years. At the Road Accident Fund Thobile was instrumental in ensuring that contentious matters are settled quickly and cost effectively directly with Plaintiffs’ attorneys. He was also a link between the Road Accident Fund’s panel of attorneys and Plaintiff’s attorneys and was on many occasions personally involved in negotiating settlement of matters and thereby ensured that matters did not go to trial unnecessarily, this saved the Road Accident Fund huge amounts of money as we all know the astronomical costs of High Court litigation. In recognition of his enormous capabilities, Thobile was seconded to the Road Accident Fund’s High Value Department which was based at the Headquarters of the Road Accident Fund in Pretoria as a part of a team that was tasked with settling matters estimated at a R1 000 000.00 or more per matter.

Shortly afterwards, Thobile was recruited by Nongogo, Nuku Inc. which was a successful firm of attorneys which had among its clients the Road Accident Fund in recognition of his outstanding capabilities in dealing with the assessment of merits and quantum of high risk High Court litigated matters. Since Thobile moved to Nongogo, Nuku Inc., he has crisscrossed the country litigating in the High Courts of Kimberley, Pretoria and Johannesburg. Besides the Road Accident Fund, Thobile has been instructed by Transnet, the South African Board for Sheriffs, the City of Cape Town, Trade Unions and high profile individuals to institute or defend High Court proceedings on their behalf.

Thobile’s talents have also been recognised by the Metro Rail which invited him to chair disciplinary proceedings involving individuals in senior positions.

He has also often been requested by the South African Board for Sheriffs to prosecute delinquent Magistrates Court and High Court Sheriffs in the Eastern and Northern Cape and has been instrumental in ensuring that rogue Sheriffs are found guilty and removed from the Sheriffs roll.

Thobile has also recently advised the Appellate Authority in the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on issues of legislative and substantive nature in respect of Hake Inshore Trawl and Horse Mackarel Fisheries in the FRAP 2015/16 appeals process.

Monde Maguga has an (LLB) degree from the University of the Western Cape.

He joined Maguga Attorneys in 2015 and is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa.

Monde is involved with administration of:

– Deceased Estates

– Evictions in Commercial and Residential Properties

– Drafting of Contracts

– Commercial Lease Agreements

– Commercial Litigation matters

Zenande graduated in 2017 with a LLB at the University of Fort Hare

She joined Maguga Attorneys Inc. in December 2017 as part of her vacation training. In January 2018, the firm sent her to Law School to complete her Practical Legal Training, where she also did trial advocacy as part of the training.

Zenande joined the firm as a Candidate Attorney in August 2018, in the Commercial Law Department. She have been part of the drafting and reviewing commercial agreements and contracts.

Zenande has experience in civil litigation and eviction matters to be exact. She has been involved in labour law disputes resolution and arbitration.

PLT (full time)- L.E.A.D East London

Her areas of Expertise:

– Drafting commercial agreements

– Drafting and Reviewing of Contracts

– Corporate Law Advice

Victor comes with a wealth of experience in accounting and worked in in several accounting fields which include: internal auditing, bookkeeping, accounting and tax consulting.

Driven by his passion for accounting and tax, he ventured into the business of outsourced accounting and tax services and for the past year offered our services to a wide variety of customers across different industries.

Qualifications:

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants – CIMA

B. Comm (Hons) Accounting degree

Bodies Affiliated with:

Registered Business Accountant in Practice (SA) – SAIBA

Registered General Tax Practitioner (SA) – SAIT

Registered SARS Tax Practitioner (SA) – SAIT

Institute of Risk Management South Africa – (IRMSA)