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Founder & Chief Executive Officer of MINDSHIFTERS Coaching, Counselling, Mediation and Wellness (Pty) Ltd. I am a NABFAM-accredited Mediator (SJA), Mental Health Counsellor registered with CCSA, ASCHP, ACRP, and CPSC, and an HR/Labour Relations practitioner with over two decades of professional experience. My work spans family and divorce mediation, including Voice of the Child interviews and parenting plans, workplace and labour mediation, conflict resolution, mental health support through coaching, counselling, and play-based interventions, as well as organisational consulting. I work with individuals, couples, families, and organisations to resolve conflict with dignity, clarity, and fairness. My approach combines professionalism, empathy, sound process, and a strong commitment to ethical, client-centred outcomes, with a special focus on the wellbeing of the child in family/divorce matters.

I am an experienced advocate and accredited mediator with a professional background spanning labour, family, commercial and contract law. Since 2011, I have practised as an advocate, specialising in dispute resolution across diverse legal sectors, including labour, family, commercial and contractual matters. In 2019, I founded Mediation Mindset, where I focus on alternative dispute resolution with a particular emphasis on workplace, family and commercial mediation. My mediation practice is supported by extensive formal accreditation across all major fields of mediation in South Africa. I am accredited as a Civil/Commercial Mediator and Labour/Workplace Mediator, having met DiSAC and ADRP‑SA standards, with accreditation valid through June 2026. I am also accredited as a Divorce and Family Mediator under NABFAM and ADRP‑SA standards. Additionally, I am a member in good standing of the Social Justice Association (SJA), a Recognised Mediation Organisation (RMO) under the Gauteng High Court Mediation Protocol. My training includes workplace mediation, commercial mediation, civil mediation, and advanced labour‑law programmes, equipping me with broad, multidisciplinary capability in conflict management and resolution. This combination of legal experience, multi‑field accreditation, and specialised training enables me to facilitate structured, effective and principled mediation processes across a wide range of disputes.

I am a person that loves a world without conflict. Therefore, my passion is to help people to resolve conflict and live in a peaceful environment. Litigation is stressful, takes time and is costly. Mediation is the answer and although not all dynamics/conflicts between people can be resolved by way of mediation I believe that any attempt is better than none at all.

I am an accredited Mediator for both Workplace/ Commercial mediation and Divorce & Family mediation. Workplace/ Labor experience - currently part time senior commissioner, I mediate collective bargaining matters, both regional and head office redline matters. I have been a commissioner since 2011, which is 15 years workplace/ labor mediation experience. My experience includes, workplace mediation, workplace investigations, initiating and chairing disciplinary hearings, mediating wage negotiations, facilitating pre-wage negotiations and facilitating massive retrenchments. Family mediation - received my first accreditation as divorce and family mediator in 2025, yet to receive assignments

Zaheera is an admitted Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and an accredited Mediator. She graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007, where she obtained her LLB degree. Prior to joining the JSA for pupillage, she practiced as an attorney for 7 years in the fields of corporate and commercial law. During 2015, she completed her pupillage and then joined Group One Advocates. Her private law practice is in the following fields: commercial litigation and arbitrations, insolvency, business rescue, access to information, construction, environmental law, telecommunications, media and entertainment law (particularly defamation and privacy), sports law; trusts and international law. My public law practice is in the fields of administrative law and constitutional litigation. She has appeared in the Constitutional Court; various High Courts; Labour Court; and at arbitrations, tribunals, and mediations. She has acted for many large, national, and global corporations in significant disputes. In 2019, she became an accredited and certified Mediator with Arbitration Foundation of South Africa (“AFSA”). She has mediation experience in the following types of disputes: - Corporate and commercial; - Insolvency; - intellectual property; - Petroleum; - Sports; - Labour; - Medical negligence; and - RAF.

Through the past 25 years, I have gained extensive experience in all Family Law-related matters, and I am perfectly equipped to mediate complex matters relating to Maintenance, Contact and Care for Minor Children, and all matrimonial property affairs.

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.

Youlander Jele Chaz is an attorney and Mediator with experience as a business and family law mediator.

Debbie Chetty is an admitted attorney and accredited mediator specialising in family, civil, and commercial disputes. She has completed specialised training in RAF and medical negligence mediation through AFSA, equipping her to effectively manage complex, high-value claims. Debbie is committed to facilitating constructive dialogue and helping parties reach practical, cost-effective resolutions outside of the courtroom. With a strong legal background and a client-centered approach, she brings empathy, professionalism, and strategic insight to every mediation process. She is also a trained Voice of the Child Practitioner, ensuring that children’s perspectives are appropriately considered in family matters. Debbie has been a part of the Pro Bono project working at the Protea Magistrate Court and the Johannesburg Magistrate court.