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Aimée is an accredited commercial mediator, lawyer and strategic advisor who helps people and organisations resolve disputes constructively and efficiently. Her career spans commercial law, policy, governance and strategic sustainability advice, including complex construction and infrastructure matters in South Africa and the United Kingdom. She has also advised organisations and senior decision makers on risk, responsible business and navigating complex regulatory and stakeholder environments.

Mokgadi Princelia Semenya is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and an accredited Mediator affiliated to Mediation Pan African. She is the founder and sole Director of MMP Consulting, a company that offers bespoke technical and specialist consulting, mediation and training services to commercial enterprises, communal property associations and Land reform entities and has rendered solid consulting services to various emerging black owned and managed land reform entities to ensure compliance with the various legislation that governs such entities. She is a panel member of Land Rights Management Facility (LRMF) of the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development providing mediation /conciliation to parties in terms of Extension of Security of Tenure Act, Labour Tenants Act, Restitution of Land Rights Act and Communal Property Association Act. She served her Practical Vocational Training at Malele Attorneys Incorporated as a Candidate Attorney. She handled commercial and general litigation files, she appeared in the Magistrate Court on various civil matters including criminal matters, and she also appeared in tribunals such as Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), various bargaining councils and represented clients at disciplinary hearings on labour matters. She is a former employee of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. She has 5 years’ experience in mediating disputes between landholders and farm dwellers, communities whose rights are affected by the mining operations, traditional authorities and communities residing on the communal properties, particularly regarding evictions, tenure security and land claims. She developed interest in alternative dispute resolution during her tenure in the Department while engaging with various stakeholders.

Shoki Mphela | Attorney & Accredited Mediator Shoki Mphela is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa with 12 years’ post-qualification experience and an accredited Commercial and Personal Injury Mediator since 2019. Her practice encompasses commercial law, complex litigation, corporate governance and strategic dispute resolution. Her mediation approach is commercially focused, pragmatic and solution-oriented. She recognises that disputes are rarely confined to legal issues and therefore considers the underlying commercial interests, risk, relationships and practical realities affecting the parties. Shoki draws on evaluative, transformative and narrative mediation techniques, adapting her approach to the nature and complexity of each dispute. Her litigation experience enables her to critically assess legal and evidentiary issues, litigation risk, proportionality and settlement prospects, while maintaining an impartial and constructive mediation process. Her experience in personal injury litigation extends from medical malpractice and professional negligence to product liability and other complex injury claims. This experience gives her a practical understanding of the evidentiary, quantum, causation and liability issues that often make these disputes particularly difficult to resolve. She is particularly well suited to commercial and contractual disputes, personal injury and medical malpractice matters, product liability, professional negligence, public liability, construction and mining disputes, employment-related conflict, and matters involving public institutions and organs of state. Her objective is straightforward: to assist parties to move from entrenched positions to informed, commercially viable and durable resolutions—while preserving relationships and avoiding the cost, delay and uncertainty of prolonged litigation where a negotiated resolution is achievable.

Accredited divorce and civil mediator since 2019 and 2023, respectively. Further postgraduate study in mediation and dispute resolution generally. Based in Windhoek, Namibia but available in Cape Town and online. Not admitted in South Africa, but LLB and LLM were completed at UCT and I have South African experience in mediation and adjudication, and advisory work generally. I studied Banking, Tax and Insurance Law during my LLB, with general electives in finance and economics. I also hold RE5 accreditation with the FSCA. My experience in civil litigation has involved banking, insurance and property disputes in Namibia. In South Africa I have experience of CSOS adjudication proceedings involving sectional title property disputes. Divorce mediation rarely involves a dispute based purely on family matters. In such a case parties are often better suited to counselling and mediators of a non-legal background. In matters that have grown beyond the breakdown of a relationship and family dynamics, additional expertise is required in other areas. My approach is to direct mediation towards systematically resolving the non-family related matters first. There are usually complicated arrangements regarding the finances, financial commitments, property and other resources of the parties. Some of these need to be divided, and others need to be utilised according to a legal arrangement that is practical, considering the changing lives of the parties as a divorce proceeds. If an effective solution to the non-family shared interests of the parties is reached, the mediation of the family dispute itself is more likely to succeed. This approach can be used prior to, or during divorce proceedings, reducing hostility and increasing the chance of an earlier amicable settlement at reduced cost. The approach can also be used after a divorce order has already been granted, but which has been difficult to implement in practice and has caused contention between the parties.

Thivhulawi Griffith Mudau is an Advocate with a career in the legal environment spanning over two decades. He completed his LLB degree in 2004, thereafter served as a candidate attorney, and is today a practising Advocate with a broad practice across labour and employment law, civil litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. ln 2024, he converted to a Trust Advocate and obtained a Fidelity Fund Certificate, enabling him to operate a Trust account and accept direct briefs from the public as a member in good standing with the Legal Practice Council. He is currently an active practitioner handling high-profile mediations. employment disputes, and civil claims across South Africa.

Shamain Alli Dadabhai – Professional Mediator Shamain Alli Dadabhai is a highly sought after mediator known for her calm authority, sharp legal insight, and exceptional ability to resolve even the most complex and emotionally charged disputes. As an attorney, Senior Commissioner (part time) at the CCMA, and experienced facilitator, she brings more than two decades of multidisciplinary expertise to every mediation. Clients choose Shamain because she offers structured, dignified, and results driven mediation across: • Labour and workplace disputes • Commercial and organisational conflicts • Family and parenting matters • Medico legal, personal injury and RAF negotiations Her approach is practical, balanced, and deeply human. She helps parties move from entrenched positions to clear understanding, workable options, and sustainable agreements. With advanced skill in high conflict management, power imbalance mitigation, and trauma sensitive practice, Shamain creates a safe, respectful space where people feel heard and empowered to make informed decisions. Whether guiding employers and employees through complex workplace issues, supporting families in transition, or facilitating negotiations involving insurers, experts and claimants, Shamain is known for her professionalism, fairness, and unwavering commitment to durable resolution. Clients describe her as steady, insightful, and exceptionally effective. Panels value her for her ethical rigour, procedural clarity, and ability to unlock movement where others cannot.

Resolved -+200 family disputes. Neutral and empathetic professional with over two years of experience in successfully facilitating family disputes. Accredited by SAAM and NABFAM with a proven track record of helping conflicting parties identify core issues and reach cost-effective settlement agreements without resorting to litigation. Adv. Nomsy Mndebele has been practicing as a Mediator & Advocate since the mid-1990s. Her practice is situated in Roodeport, Johannesburg. Nomsy has, over the years, acquired a wide range of legal knowledge and experience in civil/commercial disputes, community-oriented disputes, workplace conflict, divorce & family matters, and administration of deceased estates and trusts Nomsy believes that it is important that professionals give back time and expertise to society on a pro bono basis. As a result, she has, over the years, provided legal advice on community-oriented issues, family law matters, domestic violence, conflict resolution, and children's rights. I am committed and diligent in serving the needs and interests of families to preserve and enhance restructured relationships through mediation processes. My specific fields of interest in respect of dispute resolution include: 1. Families: divorce, parenting plans, parenting rights and responsibility agreements, and financial support (maintenance). 2. Labor relations

I have been a mediator since 2012 and internationally qualified since 2013. I have been involved in practicing law, one way or another since 1985.

• Presiding over the first 120 personal injury mediations. 20 RAF matters and 100 matters as part of the PRASA Mediation Pilot Project, achieving a 85% settlement rate. • Took part as observer and advisor in the RAF pilot project. • Managing/advising the mediator panel (and acting as mediator) in a Consumer Commission Project of 150 consumer disputes, resulting in 134 negotiated settlements. • Panel member of the Community Schemes Ombud Services. Appointment in more than 60 Community Schemes Ombud Service disputes, successfully resolving 53 disputes through mediation. • Mediating the Route 6 Taxi Association governance dispute, over 12 months, involving numerous disputes between more than 10 stakeholders, restoring the governance structure and facilitating the successful election of a new executive committee. • Since 2026 he was appointed as mediator in 7 divorce mediations, settling 6.

I practiced as an advocate for 25 years specialising in labour and employment law and have more recently joined Garlicke & Bousfield Inc as an attorney and Director. I am also currently ad hoc company secretary for a Norwegian shipping company, reports editor for the Industrial Law Journal and regular contributor to the Healthcare Business Review. I trained as an arbitrator through both AMSSA and AFSA and as a mediator through ADR group UK (international accreditation in civil and commercial mediation) and am passionate about dispute resolution and conflict management, holding panelist positions with Conflict Dynamics, Mediation in Motion, Mediation Pan African, and am a registered medical mediator with the SA Medico-Legal Association. I have extensive experience as a mediator, arbitrator and facilitator, in both the employment and civil & commercial sectors and have mediated commercial, school, corporate governance, medical negligence, personal injury, professional negligence, family & family business, grievance and workplace conflict disputes. I was involved in pro bono mediation projects at both the Durban and Cape Town Labour Courts and in the RAF and Gauteng and Western Cape Health Department pilot projects to contribute to the development of medico-legal mediation in South Africa. I was also involved in the creation of a Stakeholders Engagement Forum with the Ethekwini Municipality, business and community in the Cornubia Industrial precinct in KZN and in training for the University of Cape Town in workplace mediation using restorative justice principles.